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Monkey Theory   If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial situation, the following should help...   Once upon a time in a village in India , a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10.   The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10, but, as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their efforts. The man further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.   Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!   The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistan...

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From TODAY, Plus Monday November 17, 2008   Who’s to blame for teenage sex? Yes, there’s sex on TV. But where are the parents?   Abigail Jones plus@newstoday.com.sg     When the world learned that 16-year-old actress Jamie Lynne Spears was pregnant, everyone paid attention. She was the little sister of a famous celebrity, and the star of an Emmy-nominated show that earned her a 2006 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award. Girls like her weren’t supposed to get pregnant.   But Spears did, and she was not alone. We also witnessed the very public pregnancy of 17-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.   Critics and parents cried out for abstinence or condoms (depending on which side of that debate they were on), and many blamed pop culture as a bad influence (think Gossip Girl and Juno ). The critics’ concerns seemed real. A 2005 Kaiser Family Foundat...

From TODAY, Voices Monday November 17, 2008   By Dr Bill Maier   To a child who’s afraid of the dark, bedtime can be a nightmare – literally.   I heard about one mother who had to sit beside her 3-year-old daughter’s bed each night until the girl fell asleep.   The mom assumed that she just wanted attention, but it soon became clear that the poor girl wasn’t bluffing. She was genuinely terrified of the dark. It turned out that she’d been exposed to several terrifying movies at a friend’s home and had developed a serious phobia.   When children are afraid of the dark, there’s usually a reason for it. Imagine a boy who gets teased a lot by his brother. He walks into a dark room and gets pounced on from behind. It seems funny, but what does the boy learn from it? The dark isn’t always empty!   Children aren’t born with these types of fears – they develop them. ...

From TODAY, Voices Friday November 14, 2008   By Dr James Dobson   I wonder if you’ve ever had an experience like the one I went through a few years ago.   I’d gone to bed early one night and I was lying there waiting for my wife to finish doing some work in the kitchen. As she loaded the dishwasher, I could hear its gentle swish, swishing from the other end of the house. Then suddenly, I realised that it wasn’t the dishwasher at all. It was the squishy, rhythmic sound of my own heart beating in my ear, instead of my chest, where it belonged.   This pounding went on for a week, and it began to drive me crazy. I finally made an appointment with a specialist who told me that the muscles in my face were squeezing the vessels near my ear and I was actually hearing the blood trying to get past those constricted channels. “It’s not dangerous,” he told me. “It’s caused by stress. You’re r...