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Troubled individuals may also have watched the mounting catastrophes garner attention and taken a cue. Like a sore throat, suicide can be contagious. "One suicide in a community can become a trigger for other people who are at risk," Waterson explains. Suicide clusters generally occur among teenagers and young adults, though patterns have been reported in groups of marine troops, religious sects and psychiatric inpatients. But the cases in Gnosall cover a broad age spectrum, and the deceased, by all accounts, were not close to one another. Khan points out that the suicide rate has fallen there in the past...
...Kosovo's Prime Minister. If he and other Kosovo Albanian leaders declare independence from Serbia by early next year, as is widely expected, Thaci will become the Prime Minister of a newly sovereign state. The former guerrilla leader dismisses fears that Kosovo's proposed "unilateral declaration of independence" could trigger renewed violence in the region. "The time for war is past," he says. There is, he insists, no need for further delay: "For me, Kosovo's independence is a done deal. We've waited long enough...
...Annapolis has been met with understandable skepticism, and concern that failure to achieve anything might actually trigger a final descent into a darkness. Yet, there are reasons to hope that Annapolis instead could be the peace conference to end all peace conferences, if success is defined as the launching of a serious new round of comprehensive negotiations based on a solid consensus for realistic solutions...
...number of natural cells are exposed to conditions that normally occur inside the human body. The process causes the stem cells to multiply and differentiate into cells that restore damaged heart tissue. The final product, called VesCell, is then injected into the patient's heart, where it appears to trigger the body's natural healing mechanisms, helping the heart tissue recover some of its function...
...absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the dollar as [the] reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important reserve currency." If that ever happens, says HSBC chief economist Stephen King, "the dollar goes into free fall." ABN Amro's de Jong agrees that this would trigger a crisis, but doesn't think it will happen anytime soon: "Ultimately, the U.S. will lose its unique reserve-currency status, but it may take 20, 30 years." At the moment, he says, "the world simply doesn't have an alternative...