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...Those who have had a serious illness or condition will know the great investment of hope in seeing a doctor - that enormous leap of faith and confidence. Here's a ringside view of the other side as it deals with that leap, the side we never get to see. We may not be comfortable with the fact, but from many doctors' perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear...
...could have a fairly nasty correction over the medium term." Meanwhile, a report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in July warned that Moscow must do much more to end domestic production bottlenecks and boost sectors not related to energy if it wants to avoid serious consequences from any big fall in oil and gas prices...
...corruption and terrorism, sent an Interpol request to Australia to interview the Queensland authorities and the couple who adopted Zabeen. CBI sources tell TIME the investigation in Australia will also attempt to discover how much money was paid to MSS: kidnapping a minor is seen as a far more serious crime when the perpetrators profit from it. The CBI believes Australian parents were tricked by MSS and will face no charges over their adoptions, but insists that the biological parents should be allowed to see their children again in India. "When she knows that she has her parents here...
...sure, there are serious arguments both for and against developing such a system. Part of the justification is that the U.S. military already has such a capability. Unfortunately, it's nuclear, which renders it worthless for anything but Armageddon. But for about $1 billion, over the next three years, the nation could convert some Trident missiles - now limited to carrying nuclear warheads in their submarine launchers - to non-nuclear weapons. The plan favored by the NRC panel would replace two of the 24 nuclear missiles on each of the Navy's 12 Trident subs with conventional-armed missiles...
...fact, Matt Welch made a convincing trigger-happy argument against McCain in Reason magazine - a libertarian publication - cataloging all the times over the past 20 years that McCain has overreacted to international crises, down to his recent ridiculous statement that the situation in Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War." After the past seven years, Americans are, rightfully, war-weary, and McCain is a candidate who can't seem to go a day without proclaiming a crisis somewhere that demands an American military reaction. Indeed, this should be the natural predicate...