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Marx said that PIH has about 4,000 people working in Haiti, including 100 doctors and 600 nurses. But the figures seem hopelessly slim when situated beside the several million in need and the tens of thousands now dead...
...through a lot of rules we can scrap. What are the big ones? Domar: You have to sleep eight hours every day, or else you're going to drop dead or get fat. For my patients, that's a huge one. Whether they can't sleep because they're nervous or their kids wake them up or whatever, they're absolutely convinced that a few nights of interrupted sleep is really bad for them...
Love: It gets to be magical thinking: If I just do this, this and this, I'll live forever. Well, the goal is not to live forever. The goal is to live as long as you can with the best quality of life. And then drop dead...
...spat may be a minor compared to incidents in the past - the two countries fought a bloody border war in 1979, and in 1988 a naval battle near the Spratlys left 70 Vietnamese sailors dead. But it comes amid a steady buildup of Chinese might in the region. Ralf Emmers, an expert on the South China Sea and associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, says the Chinese tourism gambit is a move "to make its sovereignty claims over these islands a fait accompli." Vietnam watchers point to an escalation of tensions since...
...irrigation teams operate on little sleep, catching a few hours in the dead of frozen night when nothing more can be done. The company's 80-plus irrigation pumps, with miles of hoses, deliver water through micro-jets from the time the temperature hits 32°F (0°C) until it returns to above freezing in the morning. By 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, there was nothing left but hope and luck, and tall, soft-spoken Kyle headed home for a few hours of shut-eye - sleep disturbed by the knowledge that the family had already incurred...