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...Others fear that healthy elderly people will feel pressure to end their lives, to avoid becoming a burden to their families, and that the kit will lead to a spike in suicides. But Nitschke argues that access to a test reduces anxiety among those who want to know they have a peaceful way out of life should they ever need it - even if they never will. By helping them worry less, the kits, he says, may boost the quality, and length, of a person's life. "That's reassuring and empowering, and it also gives them cause to stop...
Want to be a financial analyst in New York, yet at the same time "ensure equal access to education and...promote educational excellence throughout the nation? Work for the Department of Education...
...purchase is a gamble by Tech Mahindra, which is joint venture between Indian Mahindra & Mahindra and British Telecom. Accountants are still trying to unravel years of fraudulent accounting; bidders had little access to reliable financial data, and there is additional risk of class-action suits and litigation in the U.S. relating to the fraud. Other interested buyers, including IBM and India's Spice Group, withdrew because of the uncertainties. "It's a very risky bet," says New Delhi-based equities analyst Dhirendra Kumar. "The reward or penalization could match the risk." Tech Mahindra has yet to issue a comment...
While neither Somali nor seaborne, many people around the world are nevertheless pirates. Internet users outside the United States are absurdly unable to access American television shows through the networks’ websites directly or via Hulu. Left with little choice, they master the murky world of link compilers such as sidereel.com and surfthechannel.com, conduits for illegal videos hosted by such sites as megavideo.com and others. Even in America, distribution of cable shows is so inefficient that domestic viewers resort to piracy. The networks’ shocking response to such desperate demand for their products has been not to expand...
Nevertheless, a few former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information, and prevents them from having sex. Indeed, there are no children at Camp Ashraf. The youngest residents are in their 20s, something MEK legal advisor Behzad Saffari says is because "military camps are not places for family life...