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Most people who try to change problem behaviors - whether it's overeating, overspending or smoking cigarettes - will slip at least once. Whether that slip provokes a return to full-blown addiction depends in large part on how the person regards the misstep. "People with a strong abstinence-violation effect relapse much more quickly," says Marlatt. A single slip solidifies their sense that they are a failure and cannot quit, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 74, acknowledged to the country's parliament that Somalia was paralyzed and that there was nothing more he could do. "As I promised when you elected me on Oct. 14, 2004, I would stand down if I failed to fulfill my duty. I have decided to return the responsibility you gave me," Yusuf told them. "I said I will do everything in my power to make government work across the country. That did not happen either." That statement may just be a late contender for 2008 Understatement of the Year. At the very least, it is disingenuous...
...Automobiles "R" Still Us As someone who has chosen to return to Detroit after living in New York City and San Francisco, I am offended by the media stereotype of Rust Belt workers left behind in a city of gloom [Dec. 15]. It seems easy to rationalize abandoning the car companies that helped build America's industrial legacy. What's harder is to recognize the significance of these companies as building blocks of the American story and the importance of preserving and reinventing them. The spirit that built Detroit is still alive, and those of us who live here...
...Democratic values have failed today." - After a failed bid to become the PPP's candidate for Prime Minister in 2002. He claimed that his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over to support Musharraf's candidate. (TIME, November...
...That will come as welcome news to the Spanish government, which is currently attempting to reduce immigration into the country. In response to the global economic crisis, Spain's once receptive labor ministry recently introduced a plan that essentially pays unemployed migrants to return to their country of origin. On Dec. 20, the administration extended the period during which police can detain undocumented migrants and barred legally registered immigrants from bringing over any family member of working...