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...feel about your list of `10 surprises for 2009," which you issued in December? You say these "surprises" have a 50% or better chance of occurring. For some, the odds look longer than that. Okay, let's review my list: *The first one, that the S&P 500 would go to 1,200 by the end of 2009, wasn't a crazy idea at the beginning of the year - but it sure is now (The S&P 500 is currently around 700). *The price of gold would go to $1200 per ounce. I still feel terrific about that. *The price...
...Crimson first got wind that RPI was no longer a conference doormat on Nov. 11, when the Engineers contained the Harvard offense enough to force...
...counteracted by an increase in NIH funding, pledged as part of Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because of the financial crisis. Some of the decrease resulted from a new policy that no longer allows emergency room diversions to Beth Israel from Mass. General and Brigham and Womens’ hospitals, Levy said. Levy added at the meeting that there has been a cultural shift in treatment as well, as workers insecure in their employment postpone taking time off for elective surgery...
These days, his neighbors have stopped telling stories about Qasab, and journalists are no longer welcome. But before they were excluded from the village, a correspondent from the English-language daily Dawn was able to interview a man who said he was Qasab's father. "I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son," Amir Qasab told Dawn. "Now I have accepted it." A few years back, said Amir Qasab, he and his son had a quarrel while he was home visiting. "He had asked me for new clothes...
...been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well. "God's laws," said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. "They took the life of an innocent," Sobrinho told TIME in a telephone interview. "Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot...