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...rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East, along with the North Korean missile crisis and another terrorist attack in India, has already led to a ratcheting up of oil prices. Higher oil prices, bad for businesses everywhere, may be particularly damaging right now. That's because they place another burden - more expensive gasoline and utility charges - on U.S. consumers, who are short of savings and unable to sustain their spending by borrowing against their homes in a weakening housing market. This spells trouble for a global economy still overly dependent on the U.S. consumer. That...
...Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It Those of us physicians who feel the heavy bureaucratic burden of medicine are much less likely to encourage our children to follow in our footsteps
...Middle East and changing unfriendly regimes without a degree of international legitimacy and cooperation to back it up. Though the Administration sought broad international assistance in Afghanistan, it largely shunned it in Iraq. As a result, while NATO forces are now relieving U.S. troops of some of the combat burden for fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Americans continue to fight and die alone (with some backup from Iraqi troops) against the Sunni insurgents in western Iraq...
...must confess that it weighs heavily on my mind that you are being burdened this way by me. This awareness haunts me all day long. I beg you sincerely to discuss with my sister how she can relieve the burden which is not suited for your already so heavily burdened shoulders. Help Miza [Mileva, Einstein's first wife] gain the necessary confidence in my sister so that she can take Albert, as would be the obvious thing under the prevailing circumstances. Don't give Albert the booklet; he isn't mature enough for it yet. His interest in such things...
...point in invoking a social stigma when there’s nothing I can do to treat them anyway. So what do I do? If he gets malaria, I treat it. If he gets pneumonia, I treat it. And I will let him die without the burden of knowing. That’s what I have.”In some places, like the Central Hospital of Agadez, doctors still carry the small black leather bag of my great-grandfather’s generation. These doctors still administer false hope in lieu of the real thing.The AIDS crisis in Niger...