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...described in Sampit. According to Hans Vriens, who heads the Jakarta office of the Washington-based consultants Apco, which has completed a study of the autonomy program, the hastily implemented new system will leave a few resource-rich areas better off. But much of the rest of Indonesia will suffer from a precipitous drop in income. The result: economic chaos that could engender "a widespread breakdown in law and order," as well as an intensification of existing conflicts...
...Even when clean, many athletes suffer a heavy psychological blow when forced to leave the athletic élite. "When you remove an athlete from that obsessive, glorified lifestyle and place him in the larger, more diffuse ?real world,' he's going to feel lost, anonymous and often severely depressed," says Gérard Cagni, director of the sedap drug clinic-one of two in France with in-patient programs tailored for athletes. When such a competitor also has a history of doping and drug use, the risk of addiction-and an unwillingness to recognize it as a severe problem...
...didn't suffer fools easily. That style didn't go over easy dealing with congressmen. That was the main transformation--learning to patiently explain something to someone who's clearly not informed on the issue, and being more politically savvy in that sense," he said...
...dismisses parallels to Holocaust reparations and payments to black participants in the Tuskegee syphilis study and disputes claims that African Americans today suffer economic hardship because of slavery...
...simplest: Either you are part of the experimental group, or you are part of the control, and the control group is dead. Thus, with an infinite gain associated with a successful experiment, I must believe that the 20 dollars a month utility loss that I will suffer is just buying me a ticket in the highest-stakes lottery on the planet: a chance to see the heat-death of the universe...