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...world financial markets hinge so dramatically on the Treasury Secretary’s words that extreme caution is necessary whenever the public or the press is within earshot, according to Murray. One wrong word could send the dollar into a tailspin or destroy a foreign economy. Paul O’Neill, for example, Summers’ successor at the Treasury, single-handedly caused the collapse of the Brazilian real when he said the country needed to guarantee that aid money “doesn’t just go out of the country to Swiss bank accounts...
...month period of calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little or nothing to apprehend those involved in such strikes - reacted energetically. The Palestinian police arrested two people...
Chief among their complaints is the size of the underground parking lot, which will extend beyond the boundaries of the building and destroy a number of trees. Neighbors also claim the buildings will block light and generate noise...
...will destroy the quality of our life,” Hill said. “Harvard’s design plans attack and punish the abutters...
...Pamela Palmer, medical director of the pain-management center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "The anxiety, the depression, the hopelessness that come with chronic pain really all have to be addressed"--as do the loss of mobility, hypersensitivity to touch and other effects that can destroy the quality of life. "It's not as if you can just take an anti-inflammatory drug and all those problems go away." To pain specialists like Palmer, the hand wringing and finger pointing over the COX-2 inhibitors are the result of expecting too much from these drugs and using...