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...picture my mom solving other people's problems when she's the root of most of mine. It's a challenge. In one way, I do feel that my mother did instill in me the old get-ye-to-a-shrinkery, the value of therapy and its good effect on your life. I think that's been great, but shrinks as parents is a little tough because they're not that adept at switching out the shrink hat with the parent hat, which are two very different roles. Everything is always, Well, how do you feel about that? Well...
That's not to say that very strict restrictions wouldn't have some effect on slowing the virus. In a 2006 study, Harvard epidemiologists John Brownstein and Kenneth Mandl examined the effect of the sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...
Before the flu epidemic emerged, both sides of the border were feeling the economic downturn - and the ripple effect was moving farther north. Phillips says the manager of a large outlet mall in San Marcos, 200 miles north of Laredo, Texas, told him that sales were down over the Easter holiday, traditionally a popular shopping time for Mexican tourists in Texas. But that slowdown would pale beside the impact of a border shutdown. (See a video of protests against building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border...
...commenting, There are only three of us left, only three Republican moderates left," said Clifford Levine, a Democrat who coordinated President Obama's campaign in western Pennsylvania and who also happens to be an active Specter supporter. "They're all retired, forced out, and the Republican Party was in effect cannibalizing itself...
...Nasim Ahesan, the widow of Ehsan Jafri, a legislator belonging to the Congress Party who was killed along with 38 people by a mob at his home in Ahmadabad, Gujarat's largest city. Ahesan accused Modi and 62 others of hatching a "well-executed and sinister criminal conspiracy" to effect a "deliberate and intentional failure" of the state government to protect the life and property of its citizens. Says New Delhi-based political analyst Amulya Ganguli: "Modi tried his best to scuttle the investigation - some 2,000 cases were closed. But now the [Supreme Court] has reopened most of them...