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...would incur an additional $500 or so a month in medical costs--jeopardizing mortgage payments on their house outside Los Angeles or putting the kids' health at risk. "California is already down, and imagine if we all go apply for medical welfare," says the cashier. The supermarkets dispute such dire predictions. As of last week, the two sides were aisles apart on a deal...
Those experiments, however, are often driven by dire need. When a child is suffering or suicidal, is it fair not to turn to the prescription pad in conjunction with therapy? Is it even safe? Untreated depression has a lifetime suicide rate of 15%--with still more deaths caused by related behaviors like self-medicating with alcohol and drugs. Kids with severe and untreated ADHD have been linked, according to some studies, to higher rates of substance abuse, dropping out of school and trouble with the law. Bipolar kids have a tendency to injure and kill themselves and others with uncontrolled...
Starbucks shrugs off such dire predictions. "Analysts love the doom and gloom," says Lovina McMurchy, director of Starbucks Interactive. "We believe there is money in wi-fi," she insists. This past summer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz even pointed to wireless as a factor contributing to the company's $410 million in revenues in June 2003, a 27% increase compared with $323 million in June 2002. Neither Starbucks nor T-Mobile will say how many people are using the service or how much money the venture has actually made...
...urge Green and all in the Harvard community to think about what you are saying before you speak. Most people do not choose to have their bodies ravaged by strangers for money. Dire conditions usually exist before they find themselves in this position. Especially repugnant is Green’s suggestion, even in jest, that it is appropriate to murder a prostituted woman...
...President Bush has warned that the U.S. "will not tolerate" the construction of a nuclear weapon by Iran. U.S. officials also leaked stories of Israel's submarine-launched nuclear cruise missile capability and the possibility of an Israeli preemptive strike to prevent Iran from going nuclear to signal the dire consequences that could follow if Tehran pursued the nuclear path...