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When these rules are broken, the stress on debtors can be enormous. "I've had cases where law-abiding people are terrified to go out of their houses," says Richard Feferman, a consumer-rights lawyer in Albuquerque, N.M. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the number of complaints against third-party debt collectors, while just 15,819 in 2001 (the last year for which data are available), has been steadily rising...
...woman is stretched out horizontally in a coffin-like shape. Cauvin said in her gallery talk that slaves were also kept in coffin-sized spaces. She said the bright yellow hue covering the woman’s face was a bad omen, the color of drama, stress and death...
Several Harvard officials stress that Merck will have minimal oversight of the use of the $1 million, since it is a gift and not a contract or grant—donations over which benefactors have more strict control...
...better and exercise more rather than to look to fancy new biomedical technologies. Said he, "We should not have to rely on good science to undo the bad choices people have made." He also called for incentives that would encourage physicians and other health care providers to stress prevention and wellness rather than always looking to drugs and surgery to alleviate chronic disease...
...average increase in heart-rate of those who claimed abduction was 7.8 beats-per-minute, compared with no significant response from subjects in the control group. When Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder were subjected to the same procedure, the average increase in heart-rate is 3.2 beats-per-minute, McNally said...