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...many ways is just not as good. We're never quite sure that what we've typed is going to be seen by a real, live, analog nurse, that it isn't just going to disappear. (It does.) We can't order certain things with those buttons and pull-down menus that we could in writing - things like "patient may wear her own flannel nightgown and underwear" or "please, please get the x-ray I ordered for yesterday", or "prop up patient's legs with pillows like this" followed by a little stick-figure drawing. (See pictures from...
...Over the past half-dozen years, the platform-booted mastermind of lyrics like "You pull the trigger of my love gun" has been cultivating a financially rewarding following as a painter and sculptor. It may seem an unlikely pursuit for a musician responsible for an entire industry's worth of action figures and lunch boxes. But the Kiss Army has grown up, has children and is now ready to buy art. And Stanley, 57, indulges them with brightly hued paintings that lean toward the abstract. (Think circles, squares and geometric patterns, reminiscent of an electric Madras plaid.) He does figurative...
...still be a shortage of funds and instability will endure. Both Eastern and Western European countries should appeal to outside sources of aid and attempt to garner increased assistance from institutions such as the IMF. Only with a combined effort does the European Union have the credible means to pull through the economic crisis...
With the Obama Administration taking heat for enormous deficits in the budget it is proposing, this automotive impasse can only increase the pressure on the Treasury Department to forget about further loans, pull the plug on the two companies and force them into bankruptcy...
...markets to trade and investment and selling their local banks to western European ones. It helped to drive the export boom of the past five years but left them more vulnerable to the crisis. Western banks have lent $1.6 trillion to Eastern Europe, but the crisis could see them pull back yank credit lines from their local subsidiaries, triggering a domino effect of collapsing financial institutions...