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...recent weeks, 24.9% of those searching the term "recession," continued on to Wikipedia.org, while 9.7% visited the educational site Howstuffworks.com. The most common searches for "recession" over the same time period included the terms "recession definition," "what is a recession" and "define recession." In just the last few weeks however, a new term has been rising quickly in the recession list: "surviving a recession." Despite an increase in these kinds of searches, our attention span for looming economic troubles remains remarkably short-lived...
Palliative sedation is common practice in hospitals worldwide. Burn victims or patients in intensive-care units are often sedated while doctors perform sensitive procedures or determine the next best pain-management treatment. One thing that distinguishes routine sedation from terminal sedation is that the latter often goes hand-in-hand with cutting off other medications or removing a patient's feeding tubes. On its face, this may sound to many people as automatically hastening a patient's death. But that's not the case, says Dr. Ira Byock, chair of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who has performed terminal...
...House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some connection to celebrate. When this happened to 1,600 Harvard freshmen yesterday morning, the celebration was of pride for Houses they may feel nothing for. So while there may be no harm in gushing over your House, be aware...
...told the Daily Telegraph in February about British plans for a drawdown in Basra.) Where he wanted to move on to was the much more comfortable area of shared aspirations. "We expressed our great appreciation for the long-standing and unique relationship that exists between our two countries, our common values and our common efforts that are made by both countries on national security and others," McCain told reporters. Prominent among such joint concerns is climate change, he said. "I am confident that we can reach a global agreement that would include China and India. I believe that...
...with the milieu of the black church. When clips from Wright's sermons began circulating, many whites heard divisive, angry, unpatriotic pronouncements on race, class and country. Many blacks, on the other hand, heard something more familiar: righteous anger about oppression and deliberate hyperbole in laying blame, which are common in sermons delivered in black churches every Sunday. The Rev. Terri Owens, dean of students at the University of Chicago Divinity School, says the black church tradition has its roots in the era of slavery, when African Americans held services under trees, far from their white masters. "Churches have always...