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...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 and think before acting," he says. (See pictures of suicide at Jonestown...
...PENN 2Following the previous day’s loss to Princeton, the Crimson looked to salvage some pride on Saturday in Philadelphia, against a Penn team with only one win in its Ivy League season. With a senior class looking to finish with a flourish, Harvard recorded a morale-boosting win.“The guys responded really well against Penn,” Fish said.An overpowering sweep of the doubles set the tone for the Crimson. At No. 2, the partnership of sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien and senior Sasha Ermakov won resoundingly against Justen Roth and Phil...
...question of why there is no meltdown in the chocolate business may be more a matter of psychology than economics. "There is well-documented evidence going back to Freud, showing that in times of anxiety and uncertainty, when people need a boost, they turn to chocolate," says Garelli of the IMD. "That's why when the economy is bad, chocolate is still selling well...
...will save less and spend more on a permanent basis, he says, which means growth will remain overly reliant on the performance of a handful of top companies such as Toyota Motor, the world's largest automaker. "I think it's only big spending by the Japanese government to boost the Japanese economy. The effects of it might be finished within a year...
...could only happen in an authoritarian country such as China, where the government can - and did - order the banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China's hugely important export sector, "the bigger risk in China is of a 'W' shaped outcome," Wood says. In other words, after a brief, stimulus-driven spike, the economy...