Word: reals
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...such as providing health care to the currently uninsured—are sufficiently worthwhile, the net result is almost certainly positive. But Lieberman is not interested in these kinds of moral discussions. An increased national debt is worth avoiding for him, regardless of that spending’s real effects on the lives of Americans...
...problem with this kind of statistical fetishism is not the craven dishonesty. Lieberman does not care a whit about the national debt, of course, but political disingenuousness is too common to provoke real outrage. The danger lies in the systemic politeness that allows it to fester. Politicians who embrace this amoralism deserve rebuke from their leaders, not the nonchalance with which the Democratic leadership met Lieberman’s actions. And those like Grayson who challenge it deserve better than to hear their moral seriousness condemned as madness...
...serving over 550,000 soldiers. Not only is the Army understaffed, but little attention is paid to the psychiatrists themselves, who can be mentally affected by the trauma described by their patients. While we are hesitant to guess at Hassan’s motives, the case has exposed this real lack of mental-health resources in the military...
...Express, the site draws a regular flow of tourists to its affordable curry houses and warren of knockoff-electronics booths. While members of Hong Kong's triads - the local underground crime syndicates - play a key role in Nine Dragons, they don't have much of a presence in the real-life Chungking Mansions. Mathews says that though the complex's seamy reputation may have been deserved in the 1980s and '90s, it is safe now. "There are closed-circuit-TV cameras watching everything. The chances of someone being abducted are virtually nil," he says, adding that Chungking Mansions "doesn...
...this were one of Connelly's novels, Harry Bosch surely would have found some piece of evidence; no one disappears in a crime thriller for good. In the real world, however, Connelly saw nothing out of the ordinary in the video of the hustle and bustle of Chungking's crowds. A year later, despite the ongoing efforts by Ashekian's family and friends, a private investigator, local volunteers and some 150 Hong Kong police officers, there are still no leads. Ani Ashekian's 29-year-old sister Sossy describes Ani as a "smart, adventurous, vibrant, kind, beautiful, energetic, loving woman...