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...losing their jobs, savings and businesses. The government fears that some may even be losing their minds: the Icelandic Ministry of Health has set up an emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjavík to help citizens distressed by the country's economic implosion. Located on the second floor of an old health clinic, it stands ready to treat a torrent of mentally anguished Icelanders. As yet, business has been slow. Dr. Ragnar Ólafsson, one of two full-time psychologists assigned to the clinic, was savoring a sandwich alone in his office a few days ago. "Not many...
...still plenty of signs of the good life to which this nation of 320,000 had grown accustomed. The parking lot of Kringlan shopping center in Reykjavík is filled with sparkling Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes. But inside the mall, bleary, blond-haired Icelanders pace the floor like zombies going through the motions of their former existence. "How can I rest easy knowing that everything I've saved all my life is gone?" asks a red-eyed advertising consultant dressed in a woolly cardigan and slippers as he sits in the food court...
...Kong opens, boasting one dining room on the first floor of its 1238 Mass. Ave location...
...relieved by Hangen, the conductor of the BCO, who introduced California-born soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer to conclude the first half of the concert with the prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan and Isolde.” Garbed in a floor-length dress of dull bluish gray, Harmer took a seat in the back of the orchestra as she waited for her entrance. As soon as Hangen raised the baton, there was a palpable difference in the orchestra’s attentiveness. The musicians seemed to sit straighter in their chairs...
...statement on the state senate floor, Obama explained his rationale for opposing the bill. "Whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal-protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month-old child that was delivered to term," he said. "That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it would essentially...