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...study conducted with different measures published in 2000 put the total at 1.35 million children living in homelessness each year. The numbers are likely to get worse as the economy continues to decline. "We know the numbers are going to skyrocket," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the Newton, Mass.-based Center and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School...
...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 out of the fear their job might not be there when they...
...timpani, horns, and cellos led the march with tragic urgency. During the performance of the final movement, the “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” one could almost feel the spirits passing through the orchestra; each instrument became part of a wild mass that unified in a furious ending, finishing the psychedelic trip, and completing another talent-filled, though not the finest, performance...
...investigation, the current administration weakens the protection of the innocent against the whim of the powerful. Human nature being what it is, the assumed benevolence of the strong can be but a temporary check on the descent of our civilization into savagery. ALAN C. O’CONNOR Cambridge, Mass March...
...this line of work? My initial plan in life was to become a cop and then join the FBI. But I started to learn that the worst things I've ever read about human beings doing to each other - similar if not identical things happen to animals on a mass scale. I felt that there were enough people in law enforcement but there weren't enough people working in animal rights. In 2001 a private investigator trained me, and my first job on my own was working at a dog kennel in Arkansas...