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...year, and with Wall Street?s recent financial woes, that figure is sure to grow. Chances are, someone you know will meet this unpleasant fate in coming months; while outright avoidance may work when it?s junior?s Little League coach, handling a relationship with a friend or coworker who???s recently suffered such a blow needs a delicate touch. To help, TIME?s Kathleen Kingsbury sought the advice of Anne Baber, co-author of How to Fireproof Your Career, based on interviews with several hundred laid-off employees. Below, an edited version of Baber?s ins and outs...
...movie [is ]what pushed people toward admiring or wanting to follow an Osama bin Laden: dictatorships in Middle Eastern countries oppress their people, extreme poverty and lack of access to health and education, people who feel like they?re being oppressed by their own countries. Michael F. Scheuer, who???s the former head of the Bin Laden unit of the CIA, said something very smart and eloquent, which was, what these people realize is rather than going after their own countries, they have to go to the champion and protector of these countries and that was the United States...
...point I interview the head of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This secret longing is no longer a secret to him. He's a sweet and thoughtful, intelligent guy, a schoolteacher, who???s already in mourning for the human race; he believes its gone wrong. We were great for a while, then we got too big and now we're eating up everything, and ultimately we're going to undermine ourselves, and the end is going to be agonizing. He said, "If we stopped having babies now, every decade as there were fewer people left, the world would become wilder...
Like a lot of people who??support marijuana use, psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya had detractors. (His work was called "the Cheech and Chong show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted, Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness...
...Michael Moore: Getting insurance. How do you convince an insurance company to insure a film about insurance? I finally found this guy who???s got a little company out in Kansas City. I think he?s the only Democrat who owns an insurance company...