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...past 50 years, people with mental problems have spent untold millions of hours in therapists' offices, and millions more reading self-help books, trying to turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed." For many people - including well-educated, highly trained therapists, for whom "cognitive restructuring" is a central goal - the very definition of psychotherapy is the process of changing self-defeating attitudes into constructive ones...
...change. Reilly and Herrgesell point out that reducing your carbon footprint will also cut your utility costs, but that will likely require an up-front payment - in the form of investment in more energy-efficient utilities - and those remain a hard sell to American consumers. Even if you succeed in reducing your personal carbon emissions drastically, you'll likely produce only a few tons' worth of carbon credits - and with carbon credits worth around $7 a ton on the voluntary market, you won't exactly be able to retire on the payoff. Plus, the website is still evolving...
...California, a child born during a marriage is strongly presumed to be the child of the husband and the wife. And if Rowe has been visiting pretty regularly - if they think of her as a mother and have an ongoing personal, intimate relationship with her - then she could probably succeed in getting custody...
...Weymouth, 42, who is the granddaughter of Post's longtime publisher, Katharine Graham, and has only been the Washington Post's CEO since February of last year. Unlike her uncle Donald Graham, current chairman of the Washington Post Co., and the man she is expected to succeed, Weymouth, 42, never worked as a journalist, joining the family company in 1996 as a lawyer...
...Marchionne is to succeed, he needs above all to reposition Chrysler from maker of clunky, overpowered gas guzzlers to purveyor of must-own, energy-efficient vehicles. "The challenge for Fiat Chrysler is to move away from popular products and into 'pop' products, full of cool environmental technology and on the right side of history," says Carlo Alberto Carnevale, a professor of strategic management at Bocconi University's business school in Milan and a close watcher of Fiat. "In that sense, it's the same bet as Steve Jobs'. That's why Marchionne uses that metaphor...