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...there is another, even simpler warning for the U.S. economy as we face our own deficit issues. "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked," investor Warren Buffett has said. The U.S. has none of the currency difficulties of the PIGS. We do have a government deficit expected to hit 10.6% of GDP this year and a total federal debt that will cross 100% of GDP in 2012, according to White House projections. The rolling crisis of the past three years has been an embarrassing exercise in exposing the financially underclothed...
...days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, for a combat-stress counseling session. During that meeting, Green declared several times that he was obsessed with killing Iraqis. (One entry that Marrs scribbled on Green's intake evaluation sheet read, "Interests: None other than killing Iraqis.") After these and numerous other similar encounters with senior leaders, Green was almost immediately sent back out on regular combat rotations with little more than a pep talk and a pat on the back...
...acknowledged that people quickly grow accustomed to it. This makes meeting new people not only easier and faster, but also less intimidating for those who are shyer. For those who find socializing fairly difficult, the application of the four-point method can smooth any encounter by providing conversation when none exists otherwise. Through speed, predictability, and impersonality, this brief verbal questionnaire can facilitate the extroversion of the meeker among...
...orthopedist. Carol's wrist was sporting a nasty fracture of the distal radius - the larger of the two long bones in the forearm, just at the joint. The bone was in a few pieces (the fracture was "comminuted"), and it broke into the joint (it was "intra-articular") but none of the pieces were too far separated from the others ( it wasn't very "displaced"). The "correct" or generally accepted way to treat a fracture like this has changed quite radically in the course of my career. We hardly ever operated on them when I started in the late...
...Sestriere at the Torino Olympics, Miller skied for redemption at the Vancouver. In the downhill, a small mistake cost him the gold medal - "I blew the whole race on one turn," he said afterward - but his technical ability on a nasty, icy course earned him the bronze. None of the fancied racers from Austria or Switzerland came close, and the winner, the Swiss skier Didier Defago, was another dark horse...