Word: reliefs
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...government increasingly embattled. New taxes proposed by the government to raise some of the $20 billion required to repair the quake damage were greeted with skepticism Friday by Turkish newspapers who questioned whether the revenue would actually be spent in the disaster zone. Anger at the sluggish initial relief efforts from the government and the military was compounded by the realization that the massive death toll was largely a result of officials? failure to enforce building regulations. Even more bizarre ? and possibly self-destructive ?- were the government?s moves to stop relief efforts by Islamic organizations...
Back-to-school day is supposed to bring relief for exhausted parents, but for thousands in Cleveland it is bringing only anxiety. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city?s school voucher program, which had allowed as many as 5 percent of Cleveland?s students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional...
...gentle conditioning exercises such as tai chi help some of his patients with chronic-fatigue syndrome. Similar results have been reported for folks being treated for cancer and long-term hepatitis infections. So don't assume fatigue is normal. You might be giving up your best chance for finding relief...
While it may be too early to accurately predict the political consequences of the devastating natural disaster that hit Turkey last week, the country's leaders are bracing for a firestorm of dissatisfaction. Calls for the resignation of cabinet ministers look set to snowball, and the more efficient relief effort in regions run by the opposition Islamic Virtue Party presents a substantial political challenge to Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit. "Once the initial shock wears off, the political recriminations will grow," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Poor construction work in a region known for earthquakes caused a death toll that...
...results, though not definitive, are intriguing enough so that several U.S. psychiatrists have started offering SAMe, both in addition to more conventional treatments and by itself. Rheumatologists have been more wary. "It does seem to offer pain relief," says Dr. William Arnold, who is chief medical editor of a book on alternative medicines that the Arthritis Foundation is publishing in October. "But the arthritis experiments were very uncontrolled." He's more impressed by another natural compound, glucosamine, which is the subject of a study being funded by the National Institutes of Health...