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...result, say the authors, who split their time between Australia and the U.S., is an epidemic of depression. They accept the more dire estimates about the illness's prevalence - 1 in 4 people in those countries. Such numbers bemuse the skeptics, who suspect medicos who quote them of links to the drug industry. But Murray and Fortinberry generally disparage antidepressants. They do believe that a depressed brain is different - physically - to a healthy one, but not as a result of some spontaneous chemical abnormality. Rather, they back the theory that emotional stress in the early years inhibits proper development...
...line, the new price of oil is going to make all sorts of cleaner energy sources more relatively cost effective than they have been. That is going to lead to the development of industries of which we can today hardly dream, and may yet ameliorate some of the dire consequences of climate change - a topic unmentioned by Bush in his State of the Union address, but which his predecessor Bill Clinton said at Davos was his single greatest worry for the years ahead. the two giants Larry Summers, president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, likens...
...world require systemic attention by the world," Frenkel said. "If you can dance a tango without talking to one another then so be it. But the track record isn't good." Despite all the concern, there's a lot to cheer about. The Board of Economists' most dire predictions last year - including a drop in the value of the dollar, a sharp increase in long-term U.S. interest rates and the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble - didn't come to pass. Indeed, the dollar rose in value and the yield on 10-year bonds barely budged, despite a series...
...weather and rising energy costs have pushed raw sugar to its highest world price in a decade, about 15 a pound. In the U.S., a protectionist trade policy has made the situation even worse. "The 1 million-ton gap between sugar supply and demand will only grow more dire," says Sergey Gudoshnikov, a senior economist at the International Sugar Organization...
...website is terrible and in dire need of fixing,” Glazer said in an October council meeting. “It is not, right now, the primary contact for undergraduates, but it should be. Our website could really be an excellent tool for students...