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...with the rest is a mystery to almost everyone except the staff of Breslauer, Jacobson and Rutman, the Los Angeles accounting firm that discreetly handles many of Springsteen's business affairs. At the firm's elegant quarters on Wilshire Boulevard, a TIME reporter was warned that he would be "thrown out of the office" if he persisted with questions about the Boss's finances...
When OCD patients were plagued by an obsessive thought, Schwartz instructed them to think, "My brain is generating another obsessive thought. Don't I know it is just some garbage thrown up by a faulty circuit?" After 10 weeks of mindfulness-based therapy, 12 out of 18 patients improved significantly. Before-and-after brain scans showed that activity in the orbital frontal cortex, the core of the OCD circuit, had fallen dramatically and in exactly the way that drugs effective against OCD affect the brain. Schwartz called it "self-directed neuroplasticity," concluding that "the mind can change the brain...
...group I was looking for, early 20s, there weren't any obvious guys. The character is a former Marine who's a paraplegic and has just been kind of thrown away. The actor Sam is one of these young Australian guys who's gonna be the next Mel Gibson or Russell Crowe. They grow 'em different down there, you know? In Gladiator, you understood why those guys stood behind Crowe. I needed to find a guy in his 20s who had that quality. And it's not an easy thing. It was about being able to stand up and lead...
...your discretion, wherever you can" at non-extortionist prices. "Oil refineries must be supplied. Otherwise, our chemical/petroleum industries, that account for half of our economy, will stop, which means millions of people left without salaries." And the bureaucrats who failed to keep the supply up "will be handcuffed and thrown into jail...
...strategy they should select for the war in Iraq, these young men may live only slightly longer than their fire. When a President declares war, he should have the courage to fight it. Bush's cowardly refusal to reinstate the draft and put more boots on the ground has thrown Iraq into a civil war. I pray Gates has the courage to admit defeat and bring our troops home. Helen Tackett Fullerton, California...