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...most of the tax proposals Obama and McCain have been talking about on the campaign trail. The demands on government are growing, and investors around the world won't finance huge U.S. deficits forever. Four or eight years down the road, the likeliest scenario is that the overall tax burden will be higher, not lower...
...words and what they are really feeling," says Dr. Eric Plakun, chair of the American Psychiatric Association committee on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists. "Tuning in to nonverbal communication is an essential part of the psychotherapy process, and even with a video interface, that seems to be a pretty complicated burden to put on a limited means of communication." Even silences during a therapy session, notes Plakun, have meaning; understanding it often increases patients' self-awareness, helping them to achieve mental and emotional well-being...
...reaches outside of the classroom is encouraging social services agencies to conduct early screenings for disabilities. Due to the increasing belief in critical periods of development, researchers say that early diagnosis—especially with an autism spectrum disorder—is correlated with a better prognosis. An extra burden is placed on schools when children with special needs enter undiagnosed. If parents are informed of their children’s special needs earlier, they can work with the schools to better ensure that their child receives an appropriate education. We recognize that both short-term and long-term measures...
...communication between Europe and the United States on the issue of nuclear proliferation “literally insane.” Lamassoure added that European powers are increasingly willing to help American efforts in the Middle East. “We will share the financial, military, political, and human burden. It is so easy for Europe to be spectators and to let the United States do the dirty work. We can agree to do more in Afghanistan,” Lamassoure said. “If we send more troops, we must have more say...We must be a part...
...good news is that you don't need a Ph.D. in climatology to understand what needs to be done. If you can grasp the bathtub analogy, you can understand how to stop global warming. The burden is on scientists to better explain in clear English the dynamics of the climate system, and how to affect it. (Sterman says that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark report last year was "completely inadequate" on this score.) As for the rest of us, we should try to remember that sometimes common sense isn't a match for science...