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...good portion of the cutbacks can be attributed to the sport's success. "A couple or three years ago, you had so many new teams coming in," says team owner Rick Hendrick, who fields cars for Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. "You had Toyota coming in with new teams, and there were so many people planning on running multiple teams that the pool of people moving in and being trained just kept growing and growing and growing. It looked like there was no end in sight. All of a sudden, teams can't find sponsors, they shut...
...program was so successful that it has been renamed the Body and Soul project and rolled out nationally - complete with literature, DVDs and cookbooks - in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. To skeptics who conclude that the churches have played a secondary role in the success of the programs - as a mere venue for secular health counseling - Campbell points out that in her studies, the most effective pitches came not from the nutritionists but from the pulpit. "The body is a temple, and the connection was made between the physical body and religious and spiritual...
...success of that approach led her to develop a similar guide for doctors who want to discuss religious questions with cancer patients. The approach has not yet been tested in any large-scale studies, but in the smaller surveys Kristeller has conducted, it has been a roaring success: up to 90% of the patients whose doctors approached them in this way were not offended by the overture, and 75% said it was very helpful. Within as little as three weeks, the people in that group reported reduced feelings of depression, an improved quality of life and a greater sense that...
...more fluently than others. Psychologists also know that children's socioeconomic status tends to correlate with their language facility. The better off and more educated a child's parents are, the more verbal that child tends to be by school age - and vocabulary skill is a key predictor for success in school. Children from low-income families, who may often start school knowing significantly fewer words than their better-off peers, will struggle for years to make up that ground. (Read about childhood obesity...
...limitless funding Abu Dhabi can pour into Masdar, however, success is not guaranteed. Some urban-design experts question just how sustainable Masdar City will really be. The settlement is being built miles outside Abu Dhabi, contributing to the energy-intensive sprawl growing throughout the emirate. And while Masdar City promises to use the greenest technologies on the market, that won't make it livable. "It looks a bit like a prison to me," says Steffen Lehmann, an urban-design professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia who spoke at WFES. "It's going to be a 1% token-green...