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...members. That would be on top of what is likely to be another round of lay-offs. With the national unemployment rate moving up as fast as it is and large numbers of pensions facing funding problems, the federal government may not want to be forced to support current and retired GM workers. Someone will have to pay for the healthcare of the tens of thousands of retired GM employees. Someone will have to pay unemployment for the tens of thousands of auto workers who do not have jobs and have no training to find new ones...
...Already, however, many therapists are guiding downward-dog poses in the office. Stenzler says yoga and psychotherapy make a perfect union - which is what yoga actually translates to in Sanskrit. "The goal and intention in psychotherapy is to support a patient to be who they always were. And that's yoga! I've been doing it all along and didn't realize," Stenzler says...
...politicization critique bears more weight but does not warrant derision. Many (though by no means all) animal studies scholars do support animal rights, just as African American studies scholars typically favor civil rights, and environmental studies and women studies scholars are often environmentalists and feminists, respectively. Academia is full of normative debates demanding opinions; what matters is that all viewpoints are presented and that critical discourse is encouraged...
...Shirts, who draw much of their support from the rural heartland and tend to still pledge allegiance to Thaksin, are occupying the streets around Bangkok's Government House calling for Abhisit's ouster. Roads normally clogged with traffic are eerily empty, with commandeered public buses and rows of smoldering tires serving as impromptu demarcations of Red Shirt territory. Over the weekend, red-hued crowds managed to deluge an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit held at a beach resort near Bangkok, forcing some world leaders to evacuate the premises by helicopter. The conference was hastily canceled. "Even if [the government...
...said proved that soldiers had fired directly at the Red Shirts. "I came not to protest but to cheer up people who are fighting for justice," said Pramaha Chartree, from the Sotorn temple. Last summer, at nearly the same place, other monks said almost the same thing - but in support of the Yellow Shirt crowds who had camped out in front of Government House. When even monks find their loyalties divided, there promises to be no easy karmic fix for this predominantly Buddhist kingdom...