Psychologists use the term projection to describe a defense mechanism used by those who have unwanted or undesirable impulses or motivations. Lacking an effective way of dealing with those impulses or motivations, the individual projects them onto others. In essence, a person claims that other people are driven by the forces that he or she is driven by. That’s what I thought of when I read the


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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined how hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries have begun to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans, which offer “traditional benefits without the usual restrictions on access to doctors and hospitals” and some additional benefits. [click link for full article]


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Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — On a sweltering Tuesday in mid-July, in the fields outside Pisa, Italy, Willem Kadijk scribbles notes as a ragtag troupe of doomsayers predict the end of the Oil Age.


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The editor of Washington Post Co.’s Newsweek magazine, Mark Whitaker, is expected to step down and be succeeded by the publication’s managing editor, Jon Meacham, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition on Wednesday.


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Clorox Co. is expected to name Donald Knauss, president of Coca-Cola’s North American operations, as its chairman and CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.


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A federal judge overturned a $50 million award handed down by jury against Merck & Co. earlier this month in a case of a former FBI agent who had blamed the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx for his heart attack, the Wall Street Journal reported on its web site on Wednesday.


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Charles Nemeroff has decided to resign as editor of the journal Neuropsychopharmacology after he co-authored a favorable article on a chest implant that treats depression and did not disclose his financial ties to Cyberonics, which manufactures the device, the Wall Street Journal reports. [click link for full article]


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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined how hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries have begun to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans, which offer “traditional benefits without the usual restrictions on access to doctors and hospitals” and some additional benefits.


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Fred Kempe, a U graduate, recently ended his 25-year career at The Wall Street Journal to pursue higher ambitions. Last month, Kempe was elected the new president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. The Council prides itself in promoting “constructive U.


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