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...funny anymore, I won't be able to act anymore, I won't be able to write anymore,'" says Berman. In fact, performers are more apt to see their careers improve with therapy, says Leuchter. "They become much more pleasant to interact with and other professionals find them much easier to deal with." Did ya hear the one about the easy-going, well adapted comedian? Didn't think so. He's busy working...
...These efforts, however satisfying in the short term, tend to backfire. Technology makes it more difficult to engage in protectionism anyway: it is easier to turn back ships pulling into American ports with goods made in overseas factories than it is to regulate-or even measure-what kind of overseas service work crosses American shores via computer connections or phone calls. In addition, protectionism is tough to pull off now that the world's supply chains have been knitted together. Much of what is shipped back and forth across borders is simply pieces of products heading to the next step...
...savers, in 2005-something not seen since the Great Depression. If Indians and Chinese can earn $5,000 a year and salt away $1,500, Americans earning $40,000 a year should be able to save at least that much each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling in the world to know that I'm taking away someone's job," said Sheelan Chawathe, who answers the phone for Delta Air Lines in Mumbai. He offered some advice: "Stop trading...
...charts. Many value investors came under enormous pressure from shareholders and corporate parents to load up on ridiculously inflated stocks. David Hoeft, who covers technology stocks at Dodge & Cox and sits on the domestic-equities committee, recalls a very different experience. "Our job inside the firm got easier," he says. "We trimmed as time went on. We just couldn't rationalize the expectations." No finger pointing. No pressure from the boss. And at the end of the day, no camel either...
...video games something we should grow out of? Are you still a kid at heart? -Christopher Solis, SAN FRANCISCOI think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Nintendo wants to make it easier for people to never grow out of video games...