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...evangelical Christians gained prominence nationwide, she grew bolder. She had Scripture stenciled on the walls and named the adjoining café Java Garden (as in Garden of Eden). The salon plays Christian rock, displays Christian magazines and forbids cursing or gossip. Stylists halt haircuts to pray with clients. The dose of religion is paying off. She serves 1,000 clients a month, grosses $540,000 a year and moved the salon to a 4,300-sq.-ft. space in February. Haircuts and massages are competitively priced, but prayer--her most popular service--is free...
...minor illnesses, and when they go, they are more likely to expect some kind of medication. In addition, most mainland Chinese hospitals lack modern diagnostic resources, leaving doctors unable to tell which bacteria might be causing an infection or whether it's even bacterial at all, so they'll dose patients with more than one antibiotic at a time just to be safe?a practice that also encourages resistant bacteria. It doesn't help that drugs are a vital revenue source. Mainland hospitals generate at least 80% of their revenues from drug sales, according to China's National Development...
...intervene in the Terri Schiavo case this spring, that was far from the last word it will have on the right to die. Next term the court is scheduled to hear the Bush Administration's challenge to Oregon's law that allows doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill patients. The Federal Government says Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide is a violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given how much ambivalence they expressed...
...Fourgous said the intense reaction shows that for Sarkozy, "the threat comes from Chirac's people, not the National Front." But it's with Chirac's people that Sarkozy governs. "He knows that his brand of economic liberalism isn't popular in France, so he's compensating with a dose of moral conservativism," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the French polling firm CSA Opinion. "But he can't go much further in that direction without having to choose between the government and his own ambitions...
More than 200,000 teachers and school administrators in Texas last week had to swallow a heavy dose of a prescription they have handed out to their pupils for years: a test in language skills. And they did not like it at all, for the results of the two-part exam will determine whether they can go on teaching in the state...