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...Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor? It's the reason for the holiday, after all - and for Europe, it also remains a vexing economic dilemma. The U.S. recovery from its 2001 economic stall and the Sept. 11 shock showed that Europe still has to take its lead from America's high-productivity economy. And despite much progress in recent years, too many Europeans still aren't working. Businesses and the European Central Bank continue to prescribe flexibility...
Vieweg, who is attempting to develop vaccines for prostate and kidney cancer using a patient's own white blood cells, is acutely aware of the heartbreaking dilemma posed by clinical trials. "We make it clear that we cannot promise cures. We make it clear that there is the possibility of adverse effects. We tell them the benefit is probably to the next generation of patients. And yet we know these patients are clinging to the hope that this will have an impact on their tumor." How can they...
...Anne Hewlett, the author of Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, has been in the news for highlighting those women of past, many of whom discovered that their dreams of families deferred became dreams denied. Many Harvard women say they were already aware of the dilemma Hewlett outlines and had planned ahead for a checkered future of stop-and-start careers where children would fill in the gaps...
...unlike Mira Calix, whose DJ set was alluring in its egoless focus on the music itself, Plaid themselves seemed extraneous. The most fascinating aspect of the artists’ presence onstage was the automated robot camera filming them as they twiddled knobs and rubbed their touchpads. Such is the dilemma of this music; with few exceptions, it still works best on record—whether in the comfort of a bedroom or the shuddering confines of a club...
...Mississippians can take heart in one fact: most states are going through similar crises. Medicaid has grown too expensive, and with the economy only starting to recover, state budgets can't bear the costs anymore. This dilemma arises just as Americans need Medicaid more than ever before. Last year, Medicaid covered 44 million Americans at a cost of $224 billion, with states kicking in 42% of that money. During the same period, 2 million Americans lost their employer-provided health insurance. So just as more people need help, states are being forced to either limit eligibility for coverage or pare...