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...news is troubling because labor costs in the U.S., even among highly educated adults, are falling. American workers should be available for employment at salaries much lower than they were two years ago. But, it appears that IBM has elected to move jobs offshore rather than keep them in the U.S. despite the trend of more tech workers losing their jobs here...
...York Times, SUNY Buffalo American-studies professor Elayne Rapping wrote that the fracturing of TV has created a "craving for the culture that used to unify us as a nation." But really the watercooler has just moved. Online, fans can bond with thousands of like-minded viewers rather than just a few co-workers. We don't all sit en masse for Must-See TV, but cultural moments - from late-night TV to the news to American Idol - are disseminated widely through YouTube and cable...
...then, does everyone from the President on down seem to believe computerized medicine will help contain costs rather than inflate them? One argument is that having all that information available should make for better medicine and better medicine will be cheaper in the long run. But more information can also lead to less medicine. EMR can greatly increase insurance-company denials of the treatments doctors want. Might this eliminate unnecessary testing? Sure. But who determines what is necessary? When a white-blood-cell count isn't high enough to "justify" hospitalization for IV antibiotics, the physician whose judgment says "this...
...groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting wrongs and lifting misery, he argued, psychologists need to help patients foster good mental health through constructive skills, like Ben-Shahar's PRP. The idea is to teach patients to strengthen their strengths rather than simply improve their weaknesses. "It's not enough to clear away the weeds and underbrush," Seligman says. "If you want roses, you have to plant a rose...
...economic crises, Obama's approach and the post-Cold War realities. With the Soviet Union gone and China socialist in name only, the specter of communism is no longer haunting us, and charges of socialism have lost the political power they had for most of the past century. Rather, it's suddenly capitalist piggishness that provokes genuine rage. When nearly half the House Republicans vote for a confiscatory 90% tax on Wall Street executives' bonuses, the old "class warfare" lines seem moot...