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...book, Rivers seems pleased with the results of her own surgeries, but many who seek multiple cosmetic procedures aren't. Some patients who want repeated surgeries suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), an illness defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by mental-health professionals as a "preoccupation with an imagined deficit in appearance" that causes distress in life. BDD sufferers may also be those who spend countless hours at the gym or abuse steroids. About three-quarters of BDD patients who have cosmetic procedures are dissatisfied with the outcome, according to a British study published...
...angry Anger is usually seen as a negative emotion, but it has at least one effect that would be useful in shortening the recession. Right now, lenders and ordinary consumers aren't risking enough. Entrepreneurs--even those with solid business ideas--can't get funding, so they can't hire, so the recession continues...
...about this $40 trillion of dubious promises when totting up the assets of people who will (or possibly won't) get the benefits. If these entitlement promises are real government debts, they are also real assets for the people who will enjoy them. If (as we gloomsters suspect) they aren't real for the future recipients, then they aren't real for the government either. (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
...state's 29 long-suffering safety-net hospitals for the poor, for instance, has been or is about to be cut off, according to Bellock. "Every week, I'm getting calls of doctors in tears not sure if they can treat a child," she says. "The bills aren't being paid, and the people are being turned away...
...Despite the severity of the downturn - and the size of today's protest - French leaders aren't beating a retreat. Heading into the strikes, Sarkozy sounded a conciliatory tone, assuring French citizens that he understood their problems, but also stressing that France can't "halt its reform movement...