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...thought, called the prefrontal cortex, has a direct line into the amygdala and can quiet it down. This requires effort - and creativity. "The most productive thing is to recognize that it's natural to feel anxiety in the context of unpredictability. A rat would be going through the same stuff," says Forsyth, and he means that in a reassuring way. "And then sit with it. Do not let your feelings decide what to do. Feelings are fickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Factor: This Is Your Brain in an Economic Crisis | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...freeing to be a stranger in a strange land. It's like getting a do-over; you can step outside yourself and be whomever you want. For one night in Paris, you're not a corporate lawyer - you're a concert pianist turned milliner. Pick says, "It reduces the stuff that might be important back in your real world, like your socioeconomic status. You're more likely meet people you wouldn't normally talk to." The only baggage you bring is the kind that's holding your clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Find Love at Home? Travel | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...legal court order, but I am more aware that we have a higher role here to make sure that justice is being served, and it is not being served, and I am not going to be party to that. If I was asking them to do crazy stuff here, I would say they have a point. But I'm not. This is your property, bank, find out who's in it please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheriff Who Wouldn't Evict | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

There was a statute passed here in Illinois that gives these renters a 120-day grace period to get their stuff together and get moved out, and nobody knew who was eligible for the 120 days or when it started or not because - once again - no one even knows they're there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheriff Who Wouldn't Evict | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...then, even in the craziness of a late-stage presidential campaign, the clouds of rumor and allegation, and the charges and countercharges - all the stuff Ross Perot used to call "monkey dust" - will clear for a moment and a blinding moment of clarity will distill the essence of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and Obama: A Fresh Start, a Fresh Economic Plan | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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