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...denial approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge negative thoughts and then overcome them by focusing on values. Even a small amount of this approach seems to help smokers quit, dieters lose weight and patients with diabetes or chronic pain stay out of the hospital. University of Nevada, Reno, psychologist Steven Hayes believes our Prozac culture has trained us to avoid all discomfort, leaving us reluctant to exercise or adjust our thermostats. "We're supposed to be happy-happy-joy-joy all the time," Hayes says. "Obama is trying to help us get past that...
...Italian shoemaker, however, could be the company that exceeds expectations. After all, it's been doing just that throughout its brief history. Polegato started the company in 1995, six years after an-hour long walk through the Reno, Nev., desert compelled him to take out a Swiss army knife and poke holes in the rubber soles. He wanted to know if the holes would increase the ventilation in his sweaty feet; turns out they did. Polegato was in Reno to promote his family's Northern Italian wineries, but upon returning to Italy he pursued a ventilation technology (no more Swiss...
...this story incorrectly stated that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had been sentenced to eleven months in prison for the videotaping of underage girls. Francis was not sentenced for any crime. He served 35 days in jail in Florida for contempt and eleven months in jail in Reno, Nevada after being denied bail while awaiting trial on Federal tax evasion charges, regarding which he denies any wrongdoing...
...fall of 2007, federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in the Reno, Nev., area, rounding up 56 employees on suspicion of working in the country illegally. A couple of weeks later, Barack Obama, then a long-shot candidate for President stumping through Nevada, was asked about the Bush Administration's policy of sporadic workplace immigration raids...
...said, breaking into laughter. After the event, Public Speaking Club executives said they were immensely pleased with the outcome. Attendance was high and the contestants were funny, they noted. “I laughed a lot—that part I liked the best,” said Ben Reno-Weber, who helped organize the contest. “HBS doesn’t have enough opportunities for a good belly laugh...