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...billion in further emergency loans, bringing the total amount that the Detroit automakers have requested to $39 billion. GM says it needs $12 billion more to avoid bankruptcy and announced plans to lay off 47,000 employees and sell or phase out three of its marques--Saturn, Hummer and Saab--and reduce Pontiac to a "highly focused niche brand." Chrysler has asked for $5 billion and plans to cut 3,000 jobs...
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...parts of the GM restructuring the the company can claim are firm are the closing of some brands including Saturn and Hummer, the shutdown of several factories, and the firing of 47,000 people. (See pictures of autoworkers...
...pill can be so powerful, belief in God and the teachings of religion - which touch devout people at a far more profound level than mere pharmacology - ought to be even more so. One way to test this is simply to study the health of regular churchgoers. Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend once a week. People who fall somewhere...
Investigators haven't teased out all the variables at work in this phenomenon, but Hummer, for one, says some of the factors are no surprise: "People embedded in religious communities are more likely to rely on one another for friendship, support, rides to doctor's appointments...