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...being criticized for crowing about a recovery that has been largely driven by business investment as companies gear up to meet the rising demand for exports to the U.S. and China. "There has never been a recovery dating back to 1945 that is so dependent on capital investment," says Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist Report. Should the U.S. and China falter, he warns, the Japanese economy will have nothing to fall back on, given the weakness of domestic consumer spending. "This is not sustainable," says Katz...
...million Prize that Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson will pay the first scientist who comes up with a system for extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere...
When the U.S. Supreme Court scolded the Bush Administration last year for attempting to try suspected enemy combatants on the cheap, the ruling rested largely on one of the court's most honored precedents. It's the same opinion that helped force Richard Nixon to cough up those embarrassing tapes in 1974. And for more than 50 years it has guided the court in deciding whether a President has acted within his powers or whether he has stepped over the line...
...discovered making love to one of her students (catch the Biblical reference?) into what she believes is a romantic relationship. But when she discovers that Sheba and her student have kept up their affair, her delicately constructed self-delusion collapses, or rather explodes, taking everyone nearby with it. Director Richard Eyre has an eye for thorny romance: his last film, 2004’s “Stage Beauty,” wrapped Claire Danes and Billy Crudup in questions of gender identity and theatricality in the dying days of male monopoly on the English stage. This story is more...
...muscle-relaxant to prevent injury. ECT often causes memory loss during the 2-3 week treatment period, but most patients completely recover and some have stronger memory than before treatment. “UHS has and will prescribe ECT to patients with treatment resistant depression,” says Richard D. Kadison, the director of University Health Services (UHS). If a member of the Harvard community is prescribed ECT, the treatment is provided by a Harvard affiliated hospital. Kadison says of the controversial view of the treatment, “I think it is largely misguided because of residual...