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...that self-fulfilling spiral also means relative calm can follow bouts of chaos. Though the causes of Monday's global sell-a-thon remain unchanged, by Tuesday markets had mostly digested it all - and began looking for ways to pick up, muddle on, and possibly find a deal to be had in dumped stock. One reason for the bargain hunting is that investors know inordinately depressed markets mean there are deals to be had. "Half of the companies on Paris' CAC 40 have seen their stock fall to less than their equity capital - which makes no economic or financial sense...
What exactly is ACT? Where standard psychotherapy often tries to change negative thoughts by asking probing questions (does everyone at the office really hate you, or are you just indulging in your own self-doubt?), ACT therapists take the position that trying really hard to change your thoughts tends to be counterproductive. Negative thoughts have a way of coming back again and again - have you ever tried to stop obsessing about pizza when you're on a diet? (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...effective. Despite the current shortage of nurses in the U.S., Olds says his program is ready to grow. "The NFP is shovelready for substantial expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time." But it's an investment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. "It's so neat to watch," she says. "We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. She'd say, 'Talking to your babies makes...
...Houses can sustain a 40-50 e-mail discussion without the posters lapsing into boredom (or the readers into self-immolation), but Adamsians can talk like few others can. While this week's flamewar over the House t-shirt probably won't go down in the annals of great threads along with the wrap-sandwich debate of early '09, it was marked by one of the "looser" e-mails we've seen go out to 200+ strangers. Some might say this intrepid writer was "having too good a time," others might flatly call it inebriation...
While Dincin says members of his group are "compassionate, caring, loving angels of mercy," others believe they are murderers. "In this case, I would trust what law enforcement says, not the self-serving statement of someone who would like to avoid murder charges," says Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet, an advocacy group based in Rochester, N.Y., that opposes assisted suicide...