Word: latter
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...expedition that's coming to fetch Sam, and the private multinational corporation, Sam's employer, that simply must have nefarious motives. Yet the movie isn't interested in suspense tricks or conspiracy theories so much as in investigating Sam's mind/body problem: he has a surplus of the latter and may be losing the former. Indeed, the picture could be called Lunacy, since its protagonist's mind drifts between moony and loony. Is Sam really facing his doppelganger - and later his tripleganger and possibly googolganger - or is it all just a lunar phase...
...course, the inconvenient difference between campaigning and governing is that the latter requires actual choices and compromise. In the case of health-care reform, Obama at some point will have to deal not only with conservative opposition but also with the expectations of his liberal base. Already, supporters of single-payer health care - a government-financed system similar to that of Canada or Britain - are complaining that they have been shut out of the conversation. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...better than expected in 2009, there is good reason to be wary of extrapolation. China's incipient rebound relies on a timeworn stimulus formula: upping the ante on infrastructure spending to support growth in anticipation of a return of global demand for Chinese-made goods. It's the latter presumption that remains iffy as the U.S. opts for prudence over profligacy...
Obama referred to Sotomayor's "qualities" and "qualifications," but he was a lot more interested in the former than the latter. She grew up in the South Bronx, got diabetes at 8, lost her father at 9 and fought her way to Princeton and the federal bench thanks to a strong-willed mother who procured the "only set of encyclopedias in the neighborhood." She has "a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live." Obama has spoken of wanting judges with "empathy...
...Some women who choose the latter approach have been asked to sign a raft of release forms so doctors don't get sued if problems arise. Patty Sosnader, who received a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease at the end of her first trimester, rejected her doctor's advice to abort and had to petition a hospital ethics board - and undergo psychiatric evaluation - in order to get the medications she sought. "It was very frustrating," says Sosnader, 45, a logistics manager for Procter & Gamble in Worcester, Pa. "Everyone had their own opinion about what I should do, but there were...