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...when we romance each other, at some point down the line, you have to understand why I’m particularly lost in your eyes, or particularly worried about our mutually destructive qualities. It’s because I know what happened to the last generation here. I walk the streets and see the ghosts of their passions and failures, and know that I must redeem this land and be redeemed by it. You and I are bound up in an irrational history that neither of us can understand, and I want you to know how I think about...
...Theresa Raycroft isn't buying it. Her apartment has a bird's-eye view of Blommer's, where walk-ins can sample free chocolate. A neighbor for nearly 20 years, Raycroft says she's puzzled why anyone would complain about a little cocoa dust in one of the last heavily industrialized sections of downtown, where trucks, traffic, construction and noise are much more offensive...
...feel pain (he has felt plenty of it), but he believes we turn pain into suffering when we try to push it away. ACT therapists use metaphors to explain acceptance: Is it easier to drag a heavy weight on a chain behind you or to pick it up and walk with it held close...
...experienced significantly fewer and shorter seizures than those in a placebo treatment in which the therapist offered a supportive ear. Even Hayes, who is not usually overburdened with modesty, was startled by that finding. He could only hypothesize about why ACT might reduce seizures: "You teach people to walk right up to the moment they seize and watch it." Somehow, he suggests, that helps reduce biochemical arousal in those critical moments before the trigger of a seizure...
...recovery spending--smack of a man positioning himself for a presidential run. "He needs to be careful not to look too political and too out for himself," says a Democratic strategist. "He needs to pick some fights [with Republicans]." The McCain battle was unintentional, and Obama has tried to walk away from it. He called McCain "cranky" but said he still respects...