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...Sanctions are also a limited response. If Iraq then actually manages to produce a nuclear weapon, as North Korea claims to have done, the sanctions regime becomes hard to sustain...
...what he called a “dehumanizing” experience, Chavez said he gambled for three weeks last summer for around 10 hours a day, and made enough money to sustain himself this semester...
Anyone who has ever cared for an extremely premature infant knows the stakes are high. Doctors can sustain a tiny baby with severe bleeding in the brain, with lungs so fragile that even the gentlest respirator can permanently damage them. But should they? "That's when neonatology becomes a difficult and ethically fraught field," says Dr. Myra Wyckoff of the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas. No matter how you answer the question, surely the best solution is to find a way to reduce the number of extremely premature births from happening in the first place. --Reported...
...primordial fear that haunted us through the first days and weeks after 9/11 has dissipated. Not because the threat has disappeared but for the simple reason that in our ordinary lives we simply cannot sustain that level of anxiety. The threat is as real as it was on Sept. 12. It only feels distant because it is psychologically impossible to constantly face the truth and yet carry...
...primordial fear that haunted us through the first days and weeks after 9/11 has dissipated. Not because the threat has disappeared but for the simple reason that in our ordinary lives we simply cannot sustain that level of anxiety. The threat is as real as it was on Sept. 12. It only feels distant because it is psychologically impossible to constantly face the truth and yet carry...