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...Dads jetted around the country, moms could afford to give up their jobs, and families everywhere dreamed about new diplomas and big promotions. But family life was transformed again when the current slowdown began in March 2001. Two million Americans lost their jobs, while others saw their paychecks shrink. How is the changed economy affecting their emotional welfare? "Money is the physical manifestation of who you are. It defines you," says certified financial planner and best-selling personal-finance author Suze Orman. "When you lose it, you lose part of yourself." That may be true, but an economic setback...
...result: six patients saw their tumors shrink 50% or more, and four had at least some shrinkage. For all, the side effects were relatively minor. The study was too small to be definitive, but the idea is promising. In principle, the technique could be extended to other cancers and infectious diseases--maybe even to AIDS. --By Michael D. Lemonick Cancer
...that it would be rough emotionally, and it has been. But I'm not surprised." What Feinberg will admit is that the experience has caused him to recalibrate his job description. "In dealing with these claims," he says, "you're only 10% lawyer. You're 40% rabbi and 50% shrink...
...Mugabe is returning the country to a feudal system, just like Pol Pot did in Cambodia," says John Robertson, an economist based in Harare, who predicts that Zimbabwe's economy will shrink 12% this year, which would make it the worst performer in the world. Says U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker: "Mugabe has taken a country that should be prospering, that should be benefiting from its natural resources, including the resources of its own people," and has plunged it "into economic chaos and ruin...
Snakeheads, however, are really nothing more than common swamp fish. In Southeast Asia, where they originate, they live in irrigation ditches and rice paddies, thriving there until the dry season, when their pools shrink and they squirm along to the next pocket of water. Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever. "Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary," says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach...