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...shingles vaccine has been available since 2006, but to date, only 2% of Americans 60 and over have been vaccinated against the disease, an extremely painful condition caused by the chickenpox virus that hits 1 million new patients a year - almost half of all unvaccinated adults who live to 85. Getting vaccinated also means avoiding the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), which people with shingles sometimes develop, causing debilitating pain for months or even years...
...ISAF is committed to staying in Afghanistan only until 2010. In the meantime, more civilians are sure to be caught in crossfire. In Chenartu, Faiz Mohammed reflects on his own experience. Afghanistan has been in turmoil for decades, but he says, "There has never been so much pain brought to this village...
...Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...
...consensus about how long this recession is going to last, or how the U.S. and the world will react to that bitter medicine. What has become evident is that globalization can't insulate us from recessions. The question is whether an increasingly integrated global economy can help soften the pain we're likely to feel at home--or will make the pain worse...
...lesson here may be that there is no solution to the problems of the U.S. economy that won't involve some pain. One interesting dynamic that will play out over the next few years is that some people and some countries are in far better shape to weather a slowdown than others. Right now, the U.S. isn't one of them: with our trade deficits and federal budget deficits, we may be more vulnerable than other economies to the effects of a broad global downturn. And so whatever happens in the markets this year, you probably will not feel...