One can only hope that more of the media become as wary as The Economist about self-proclaimed climate-change sceptics.
What about doing some old-fashioned self-introspection for a change?
In spite of his idiosyncrasies, he was remarkably self-reflective and would actually change his behavior.
The police and the council are hoping "self-enforcement" and education change attitudes towards speed.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
There must be no doubt that the United States of America welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity.
In all cases there's a change to the self -- a kind of opening to our higher, nobler possibilities.
But the conflicts of interest affecting Wall Street investment research run far deeper than the chump change a few self-dealing analysts pocket.
Market-based mechanisms for social change are a welcome move toward dignity and self-sufficiency here at home and they bridge mainstream financial institutions with traditionally underserved markets in the United States.
The third article cited by Nasibu contains nothing more than self-serving UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model predictions (as opposed to empirical evidence) that global warming will dry up much of Africa.
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Bandura calls that confidence "self-efficacy, " and it could possibly change the world, one person at a time.
As powerful as these suggestions are, understand that change will only come with self-recognition, the power to see unto yourself.
Rather than risk looking self-promotional, we downplay our work, change the subject, or put others in the spotlight in our place.
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We are trying to map an alternative position that is both more self-critical and more engaged with how technological change is actively affecting our culture.
"I offered several (unconvincing) reasons why it was reasonable to assume that the participants' reports of change were credible and not self-deception or outright lying, " he wrote.
But ultimately, self-interest itself will be a force for change.
So, far from the labour share being reduced by the capitalists getting all the money in profits, what we actually have is a slight change in the workforce, self- as opposed to direct employment, plus we have a rise in taxes.
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But when Brown spoke to some of these women individually, she realized that they had largely detected lumps by coincidence -- they happened to notice a change in their bodies -- rather than during a formal self-exam at a scheduled time of the month.
Any client-friendly change or investment in efficiency during their brief tenure at the top is self-destructive.
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The trade-offs involved in using abstracted data in relational databases versus non-abstracted data in non-relational databases, relying on pre-abstraction versus self-abstraction of high-volume data streams, and so on are not obvious, will change as technology involves, and will depend on the company and the problem.
MPs devised the system under their self-regulating arrangements and that's what must change for the future.
Each morning I would try to change my natural tendency by exerting self-control.
Your desperate longing for change is clouding your sense of self-worth.
But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change.
To break the cycle of failure, we must initiate behavior change out of a place of self-acceptance and a desire to enjoy a higher quality of life.
"We think it would be unlikely that there'd be a significant change in the volume of" self-insurance for small firms, said one official with the Department of Health and Human Services.
"I think it is pretty self-evident what will happen if they don't change the tune, " he said.
Considering the current state of economy, self-paying students and students at the crux of career change had to rely on their network and alums to help out rather than the school pitching in.
The good news is that, as with any self-inflicted wound, the power is in our hands to change course.
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