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...where valuations are attractive. I'd move away from the staples and pharma and into the more cyclical names. I'm looking forward to doing that. We've been looking for an opening, and we hope to get it in the next six months. But if I'm wrong, then maybe it will be the six months after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Forester, 2008's No. 1 Stock Picker | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...which are central to 12-step programs. Others received secular psychotherapy. Because of the enduring popularity of AA and similar programs that involve a spiritual component, Miller and his team expected the patients in the spiritual group to do better than those in the secular group. They were wrong - at least in the short term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Disorders, the field guide mental-health professionals use to diagnose illnesses. That means we have to figure out a way to help the 80% who won't get better through willpower. The latest evidence suggests that those who think that spirituality or a pill alone can save them are wrong. The answer almost certainly lies deeper inside ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Straining daily choices through a legal sieve basically kills the human instinct needed to get things done. Law applied to ordinary decisions leads to bad choices, which leads to more law, which leads to worse choices. Pretty soon law is everywhere, separating people from their instincts of right and wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Without Lawyers | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Matta, Pakistan, refused to comply when local Taliban leaders demanded that he hike up his trousers to expose his ankles in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher knew Muslim teachings and had earned jihadist stripes fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Their edict was wrong, Islam told the Taliban enforcers; no such thing had been demanded even by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the '90s. The scuffle that resulted left Islam's body hanging in the town square. To drive home their warning to the locals, the militants also shot the teacher's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: A Mounting Problem for Obama | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

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