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...networks cut costs, they're less likely to make the next West Wing (or Knight Rider). But smaller shows survive that once wouldn't have lasted a season. Take NBC's finely detailed small-town drama Friday Night Lights, which draws as few as 4 million viewers a week. It was able to air a third season this year because NBC signed a cost-sharing deal with DirecTV - one of the very satellite providers that have helped atomize the audience...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...haven't gone into a restaurant and ordered it in a while. To me, it's one of these things I would have on rare ocassions. Because I did this book on it, the novelty is completely gone. But I think if I wrote a book about brownies, I wouldn't really be craving brownies right now either...
Since I've always been fidgety, I asked Rapport if he wouldn't mind putting me through the same tests he gave the boys. And so last week I found myself at the UCF Psychology Department, where a grad student affixed a device called an actigraph to my left wrist. Actigraphs look like digital watches and generate a signal each time they are moved, even slightly. They allow researchers to measure, quite precisely, a subject's kinetic activity. The boys in Rapport's experiments wore actigraphs on their ankles as well as their wrists because kids are often just...
...before Palyakova's death, the state-run newspaper Sovietskaya Belorussiya, or Soviet Belarus, had published an article mocking her and her complaint. "The state drove her to suicide," says Valery Shchukin, a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for human rights who worked with Palyakova. "The police wouldn't leave her alone - ringing her late at night. The judgment was the end of the world for her. She was very frightened...