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...immediate temporary Federal loan in the amount of up to $4 billion in the month of December 2008 ... GM would look to draw up to an additional $4 billion in January to fund operating losses caused by very low levels of North American production ... If industry conditions do not improve materially, GM would access another $2 billion ... bringing the total draw to as much as $10 billion by the end of the first quarter...
Scott also has schizoaffective bipolar disorder, a mental illness she keeps in check with a low dose of Zyprexa. If you were to ask Scott, she would say she is a healthy person overall. So she was shocked when the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) published a study two years ago called Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness. The report analyzed data from 16 states and found that, on average, people with severe mental illness die 25 years earlier than the general population. "Hearing that made me so sad," says Scott...
...have called people's attention to it. Even though neglect is the largest portion of cases, it's under everybody's radar," Widom says. "And yet we know that neglected children are at as high a risk as physically abused kids for becoming violent offenders, for example, or having low reading ability." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
Widom points to years of past research linking early childhood abuse to an increased possibility of long-term behavioral and psychological problems, ranging from low educational achievement to criminal behavior, risky sexual practices and even increased chance of obesity. "Child maltreatment has long-lasting effects across multiple domains of functioning. It's not just in childhood. It lasts into adulthood, and we are not really thinking about these long-term consequences, and we're not planning for them," she says...
...backs of the poor,” she said. Some residents, including Terrence F. Smith, the director of government affairs for the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, said that thanks to the taxes paid by the biotechnology firms, Cambridge is able to provide extensive programs for its low-income residents while maintaining relatively low property taxes. In September, biotech lab developer Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. applied for a zoning change that would allow it to construct buildings taller than those currently allowed under East Cambridge zoning rules. Some residents said they believed the meeting was called to facilitate Alexandria?...