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Despite the lack of clarity, Gomes was optimistic, saying that in his decades on the Faculty, more than one period of financial pressure had been weathered without heavy involvement by the professoriate...
...think that this downturn will last." Shirakawa says the mind-set of the Japanese public, which he calls structural pessimism, is, "Oh, it's a recession again" - a sentiment learned from the trials and tribulations faced during the Lost Decade. There is no easy solution to this endemic lack of confidence, he says; it requires different policy solutions than what Western economies require. "We did a lot in terms of capital injection, recapitalization, public investment, tax cuts - everything. We were ahead of the curve, front-liners," he says. "We have success in stabilizing the economy, but have continuously failed...
Toilets are a privilege that nearly half the world lacks. At least 2.6 billion people around the planet have no access to a toilet - and that doesn't just mean that they don't have a nice, heated indoor bathroom. It means they have nothing - not a public toilet, not an outhouse, not even a bucket. They defecate in public, contaminating food and drinking water, and the disease toll due to unsanitized human waste is staggering. George notes that 80% of the world's illnesses are caused by fecal matter: A single gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses...
...happens later, according to Edelman, when the initial trial fails and the physician doesn't rethink the diagnosis or run the proper tests - and instead addresses the problem by using different drugs. "We need to pay attention to what symptoms mean and patients' response to treatment. We cannot accept lack of responsiveness to medication. It could be a misdiagnosis," Edelman says...
...Politico, a Capital Hill newspaper.This round of Summers backlash has focused on his comments at a 2005 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in which he suggested that “intrinsic” physiological differences between men and women may in part account for the relative lack of women in top science and engineering jobs.But in fact, Summers’ most incendiary battles with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were over what they saw as his abrasive leadership style, his firing of then-FAS dean William C. Kirby, and his possible role...