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...expect the U.S. stock and bond markets to be down in 2005. George Bush spent huge amounts of money in 2003 and 2004 to get the economy going. To top that is impossible, so we have to have the normal reaction and a slowdown...
...This is the right path, and we will continue to walk on it with courage, until our people finally have a normal, complete, progressive, beautiful and great country." CHEN SHUI-BIAN, Taiwan's President, praising the island's recent constitutional reforms in his annual New Year's Day address...
...former South African President Nelson Mandela; of AIDS-related complications; in Johannesburg. Mandela announced the cause of death at a news conference, saying AIDS, which kills 600 South Africans daily, requires public discussion--an African taboo, yet "the only way of making it appear to be a normal illness...
...most of its history, psychology had concerned itself with all that ails the human mind: anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions. The goal of practitioners was to bring patients from a negative, ailing state to a neutral normal, or, as University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman puts it, "from a minus five to a zero." It was Seligman who had summoned the others to Akumal that New Year's Day in 1998--his first day as president of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.)--to share a vision of a new goal for psychology. "I realized that my profession was half...
...manage its troubles and made a point of dispatching its own relief workers to aid other countries in the region. The government was especially sensitive about foreigners invading the Nicobar islands, where the military keeps a secret electronic-listening post. Sparsely populated and almost impossible to reach in normal times, the islands are home to some of the world's last Stone Age tribes--five groups, with populations of 30 to 250, of Pygmy Africans and Mongol hunter-gatherers who stalk wild pig in the rain forest with bows and arrows. They were believed to have been wiped...