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...exports. If companies can't get access to capital or are discouraged from innovating, they don't build new businesses at home. And if there's no building, people can't get jobs or pay raises. Underemployed people don't shop much, so local retailers and consumer product companies suffer too, leaving nobody to take up the slack from sluggish exports...
...Just how much are Japanese willing to suffer? Yukinobu Karasawa, a 27-year-old salaryman, mulls over the question as he shops for Koizumi goods?posters, T-shirts, cell-phone straps?at the Tokyo LDP headquarters. "I support his reforms," he says, "but if they begin to hurt me, I might have to reconsider." Then it will be the Prime Minister who feels the pain...
...Californians have to suffer through this summer's blackouts: if a business can prove it needs electricity for public safety, the state utilities commission can give it an exemption and keep the juice flowing. That loophole has prompted some 9,000 applications ranging from the reasonable, such as one from the San Diego Zoo?electrified fences make good zoos?to the ridiculous, including those from liposuction clinics and taco stands. The Norbert Wabnig Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has applied because, says Shivon Ryan, cheeses are "perishables and require refrigeration." (And who knows how many Angelenos might perish without goat...
...Either way, Frist?s was a bold move, sure to enrage some of his more conservative constituents, and not without political risks. If the Senator is seen as urging Bush to break his campaign promise to end the funding, he could suffer for it later at the hands of Republicans angered at the President?s choice but helpless to oppose it publicly. And if he is acting as the test balloon for the decision Bush has all but made, Frist could bear the brunt of criticism from research opponents...
TILL DEATH DO US PART It is what every senior couple dreads--one of the two becomes terminally ill, and the other strains under the grim burden of caring for a dying mate. The stress often takes a physical toll, but these caregivers suffer less depression, lose less weight and take better care of themselves after the death of their spouse than someone whose husband or wife dies suddenly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The foreknowledge of the death allows the caregiver to grieve as well as prepare for the death. Also...