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...reports that cover May, June, July, and August. These will be the four most important economic indicators of the summer. They will show whether the government stimulus package has been even modestly successful, whether there will be consumers who can shop during the holiday season that now seems to start in September, if there are buyers to participate in the struggling car markets, and citizens who can be taxed rather than being a tax on the federal and state governments. The news will be particularly bleak if the economy sheds more than 500,000 jobs in any of these months...
Most likely, things start going awry simply due to advancing age, Agrawal says. Smoking, hypertension and diabetes are also associated with higher rates of inner-ear balance problems. Fortunately, the condition is easily diagnosable in the doctor's office: patients are asked to stand on a firm padded surface and close their eyes. Without the ability to use touch and vision to stay balanced, patients who suffer from an inner-ear problem promptly fall down. The addition of that simple test to annual physicals, Agrawal says, "would likely save millions of dollars and lives...
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...small," Fritz Soergel, the head of the Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research in the city of Nuremberg, tells TIME. "And it's not even cocaine itself. According to the tests we carried out, it's a nonactive degradation product with no effect on the body. If you start examining lots of other drinks and food so carefully, you'd find a lot of surprising things," he says. (See pictures of cocaine country...
...sweeten their offerings. This conviction is widely shared among career diplomats in Seoul as well, and they joined their State Department colleagues in outrage when the Bush Administration at first took a confrontational approach with the DPRK. Bush's hard-line stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear-weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe that North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush's time in office...