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While churches are growing increasingly willing to accept the assistance of health-care experts, doctors and hospitals have been slower to seek out the help of spiritual counselors. The fear has long been that patients aren't interested in asking such spiritually intimate questions of their doctors, and the doctors, for their part, would be uncomfortable answering them. But this turns out not to be true. When psychologist Jean Kristeller of Indiana State University conducted a survey of oncologists, she found that a large proportion of them did feel it was appropriate to talk about spiritual issues with patients...
...rally isn't over. The fear that China will stop buying U.S. debt is unfounded. Beijing can't buy anything else with its excess dollars. There are simply no alternative investments that are large enough or liquid enough. But more importantly, there are fundamental reasons why Treasury prices will move much higher (and yields lower) - and why the current opportunity to go long U.S. Treasuries should be grasped with both hands...
...Historic Moment "I was there." after days of traveling, sleepless nights and frigid temperatures, this is something I can say for the rest of my life [Feb. 2]. In these days of troubling economic news and fear of just about everything else, watching President Barack Obama take the oath of office reminded me of our ability to overcome fear, hate, prejudice and divisive ideologies. Although change will not happen overnight, we should all be reminded through this Inauguration that change can happen when we make the choice to commit to it. Joshua Phillips, Carbondale...
...That fear may be realized if the incentive package does not sufficiently reduce staff, said Brett C. Sweet, FAS dean for finance, adding that "on the very painful end of this [process] are staff reductions, layoffs...
...report, the Council of Europe also criticized the fact that the Czechs often use the punishment on first-time, nonviolent offenders, like exhibitionists. Another issue: the Czech penal system effectively forces many prisoners into accepting the procedure out of fear they will be jailed for life if they do not, according to the council. "Given the context in which the intervention is offered, it is questionable whether consent to the option of surgical castration will always be truly free and informed," it said. Investigators found five cases of it being performed on legally incapacitated offenders who were not capable...