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...approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge negative thoughts and then overcome them by focusing on values. Even a small amount of this approach seems to help smokers quit, dieters lose weight and patients with diabetes or chronic pain stay out of the hospital. University of Nevada, Reno, psychologist Steven Hayes believes our Prozac culture has trained us to avoid all discomfort, leaving us reluctant to exercise or adjust our thermostats. "We're supposed to be happy-happy-joy-joy all the time," Hayes says. "Obama is trying to help us get past that...
...have helped unclog New York's sclerotic traffic, which now costs the city $13 billion a year in lost economic productivity and dirties New York's air, which is more polluted than that of any other city in the country besides Los Angeles. "It's an essential idea," says Steven Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...book about achieving an equal balance of marital responsibilities is akin to one that promises speedy weight loss. You quickly discover that there is no magic--just discipline and eating your vegetables. For the couple who wants to split family life even-steven, it takes love, commitment and the ability to swim upstream, societally speaking...
...University just announced that Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be this year's Commencement speaker. Not a huge surprise, considering Harvard's new green initiative and Al Gore's recent speech in Tercentenary Theatre. Green is the new Crimson, baby. But although Harvard is digging that Chu is a passionate advocate for renewable energy, his passion for academics went somewhat...unappreciated by the Ivy Leagues in an earlier go-round. In his autobiography on the Nobel Prize web site, he writes of how he was rejected...
...Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu will be the headline speaker at Harvard's June 4 Commencement exercises, University officials announced Thursday morning. The announcement highlighted Chu's role in pushing renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and as an academic, and referenced Harvard's own recent efforts to promote sustainability and research to address environmental questions. “Steven Chu is a brilliant scientist and an eloquent exponent of thoughtful, creative approaches to meeting the challenge of global climate change,” said University President Drew G. Faust in the press...