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...Canada, Sweden and Switzerland, which all also cut their key lending rates. The decision, which came ahead of the Federal Reserve's scheduled meeting October 28-29 to debate a rate cut, was on the heels of consecutive drops in major market indices around the world and the belief that, thanks to falling commodity prices, inflation is no longer the markets' major problem. But in the end, the market only gave proof of one of its old traits: fickleness...
...infection rates reported by the 2007 trials in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda that studied heterosexual men. After 1996, however, when antiretroviral (ARV) drugs turned H.I.V. into a condition that people lived with rather than died from, the protective effect of circumcision became nonsignificant, Millett found. The widespread belief that ARVs could prevent H.I.V. transmission led to an increase in risky sexual behavior, outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections and increasing rates of H.I.V., which, the study's authors say, may have diminished the relative effectiveness of male circumcision...
...awards for brilliance or even competence but to sell a message. (The film is stuffed with citations from the New Testament: James 1:19, Romans 5:8 and 10:9, if you're reading at home.) For another, it has some of the charm of amateur filmmaking - a belief in itself, in pleasing and educating its core audience. In that sense, Fireproof is like Tyler Perry's psychodramas (also Georgia-based) with Christian themes and a naive vibe. Fireproof was clearly a community endeavor; the end credits thank hundreds of Albany residents for contributing food, locations and moral support...
...short story. Drawing an analogy to William Blake’s “world in a grain of sand,” he writes in a New York Times essay that “the short story concentrates on its grain of sand, in the fierce belief that there—right there, in the palm of its hand—lies the universe…In that single grain of sand lies the beach that contains the grain of sand...
...degree murder for assisting terminally ill patients to commit suicide, Kevorkian, a former pathologist, served in prison for eight years before being released on parole in 2007. Kevorkian said he uses the 9th Amendment, which addresses civil rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, as the basis for his belief in a patient’s right to die. Last week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a dismissive remark about the 9th Amendment when taking questions from the audience during a lecture at the Law School. But Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who introduced Kevorkian, argued that...