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"Research shows for the first time that a group-based psychological treatment, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), could be a viable alternative to prescription drugs for people suffering from long-term depression."
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"It remains only to close the Viridian episode gracefully, and to conclude with a few meditative suggestions."
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"We are a technological society. When we trifle, in our sly, Gothic, grave-robbing fashion, with archaic and eclipsed technologies, we are secretly preparing ourselves for the death of our own tech. Steampunk is popular now because people are unconsciously realizing that the way that we live has already died. We are sleepwalking. We are ruled by rapacious, dogmatic, heavily-armed fossil-moguls who rob us and force us to live like corpses. Steampunk is a pretty way of coping with this truth."
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"I know the counter-argument well — that we need the rough stuff for the truly hard cases, such as battle-hardened core leaders of al-Qaeda, not just run-of-the-mill Iraqi insurgents. But that's not always true: We turned several hard cases, including some foreign fighters, by using our new techniques. A few of them never abandoned the jihadist cause but still gave up critical information. One actually told me, 'I thought you would torture me, and when you didn't, I decided that everything I was told about Americans was wrong. That's why I decided to cooperate.'"
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"Michelin's Active Wheel system is the holy grail of wheel technology: a wheel with an integrated drive motor that has succeeded to meet unsprung weight limitations."
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"As impressive as her statistics were, Nightingale worried that Queen Victoria’s eyes would glaze over as she scanned the tables. So Nightingale devised clever ways of presenting the information in charts. Statistics had been presented using graphics only a few times previously, and perhaps never to persuade people of the need for social change."
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"In fact, I don't think it's overstating it a bit to say that unless this case is overturned, it is time to get off the Internet completely, because it will have become too risky to use a computer."
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"The report was from a national security committee of the Russian Duma to Rep. Lee Hamilton, who had requested what might be in Moscow's files as part of a task force investigation into whether the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 had interfered with President Jimmy Carter's bid to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran."
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"Because at the heart of the "now the economy is wrecked, with need to go slow on environmental regulation" argument are two simple ideas. First, that the economy should be our primary concern, and second that protecting the environment is expensive. Which is quite possibly the most idiotic construction since the float/sink test for witches."
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"The Bush administration, using tactics reminiscent of old Soviet-style coups, is embedding its foot soldiers deep into the federal government in order to sabotage forthcoming Obama initiatives, while simultaneously terminating federal employees whom Bush officials fear would be supportive of President-elect Obama's goals. It is a two-step process – step one is to get rid of whistleblowers who would expose wrongdoing and step two is to burrow operatives whom they know will continue the wrongdoing."
