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Why Saying Is Believing — The Science Of Self-Talk

Self-help videos tell women to learn to love their bodies by saying nice things to themselves in the mirror. Can shushing your harshest critic actually rewire the brain?

Leon Panetta says he and other top national security advisers to the president argued to keep some U.S. forces on the ground in Iraq after 2011. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Panetta: Fight Against Terrorism Will Be A Long, Sustained War

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Fort Yukon is one of several Alaskan towns where Gwich'in is spoken. Kirk Crawford/Flickr hide caption

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Alaska Must Translate Election Material Into 2 Indigenous Languages

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Alex Sharp stars as 15-year-old Christopher in the theater adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Courtesy of Joan Marcus hide caption

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The Unadaptable 'Curious Incident' Gets A Stage Adaptation

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Joan Biskupic, author of a new book about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, says she was "intrigued by the fact that ... the arc of her life was actually the same trajectory of the rise of Latinos in America." Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

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How Justice Sotomayor Is 'Busting' The Supreme Court's Steady Rhythms

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