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...despite all that, the best reason to watch your local 10 o'clock news is for their bottom-of-the-hour human interest stories. You know, a leprechaun in Alabama, that sort of thing. And, as the genius mash-up, "Finally Tonight, Jesus..." points out, one of the more popular newscast-ending segments is that wonderful evergreen, "Look at this crazy [insert object name here] that looks like [insert deity name here]."(See The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits...
...given a DSM diagnosis of depression (296.31 or 296.32, mild or moderate, recurrent) and prescribed drugs for it - even if the reason for your funk is that you just lost your job. Such physiological responses as insomnia are evolutionarily natural (and sometimes helpful, in a jump-starting sort of way) when you suffer a trauma like losing your job. But according to the DSM, only perfect is considered normal. Another basic problem with the DSM: it tries to reduce the vastly complex experiences of your mind to a single number...
...Innovation in Science and Engineering,” the College does not offer any classes in professional business skills. Undergraduates are also largely excluded from classes across the river at Harvard Business School, which would otherwise be applicable to their business pursuits. Most students seeking this sort of training, such as accounting or strategic decision making, flock to MIT for classes like the popular Corporate Financial Accounting. Since Harvard allows students to cross-register for these classes already, many students wonder why the opportunity for similar classes isn’t readily available on their own campus...
...That sort of context might prove useful for thinking about the day's broader market moves. To be sure, it was a happy one on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 5.8%. The broader S&P 500 index rose 6.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite gained 7.1%. For investors used to seeing negative signs in front of figures like those, there was cause for celebration indeed. (See the best business deals...
...declined to use his name for fear of repercussions. "That just opens up the floodgates to anyone who wants to have a stake in power. All he has to do is just go and be as violent as possible; kill a couple of people, and there will be some sort of concessions made and he can come into power." Like the businessman, many Afghans fear that Obama's proposal heralds the onset of a policy aimed at withdrawing from the quagmire rather than helping Afghanistan to its feet. "Basically, it means that suddenly you have capitulated on your core fundamental...