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...Meanwhile, the default position for the GOP in the Obama era is no, and while its united recalcitrance failed (barely!) to stop health care, that's likely to make its leaders even less eager to hand the President another big victory. For reasons of anti-regulatory ideology as well as intense pressure from banks and other business lobbies, many Republicans - and some conservative Democrats - are deeply uncomfortable with a financial crackdown in the first place. Senator Bob Corker has been the GOP's leading voice for compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many...
...receives permission to fire on the vehicle. In the ensuing barrage, two children inside the vehicle are apparently wounded, and their father, a Good Samaritan who had stopped to take the wounded man to the hospital, is allegedly killed. When U.S. ground troops arrive later, they discover the youngsters. "Well, it's their fault," a member of the Apache crew says, "for bringing kids into a battle." Initially, the U.S. said the dead were all insurgents and had been killed in battle, but the video as released seems to offer no evidence of hostile intent by those on the ground...
...special report contains a somewhat sinister revelation as well. "The divide between haves and have-nots is growing," Nation's Restaurant News comments, stating the obvious. Francese didn't really have an answer for how this plays out in the kitchen, or at least not one he was willing to share. (He hems and haws about more customer questionnaires being needed.) But the answer's there in the article, in one of the responses the paper got to its survey about changing tastes. The owner of a Boston gastropub takes note of its guests' "increasingly open desire for more stimulation...
...Several years ago, Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku ward began a lonely-death awareness campaign. It hosts social events to draw people from their apartments, distributes a newsletter to the elderly and monitors their well-being by, for example, checking to make sure they're taking out their trash. Other wards have followed suit, but as accurate lonely-death statistics are often unavailable, success is difficult to measure. "If you live alone, it's inevitable that you may die alone," says Yoko Yokota, assistant supervisor of the ward's division for senior-citizen services. "What Shinjuku ward wants...
...substitute for institutions where professional care is available to sick newborns. But, he says, "peer influencing" of the type that goes on at these meetings - relating to commonsensical practices, like hand washing and good hygiene - certainly helps. "The neonate is too cold because the baby isn't wrapped well; the baby isn't getting enough breast milk; the baby is showing signs of infection. These three simple things are the underlying causes of the majority of all the neonatal deaths in India," says van den Hombergh. Interestingly, during the Ekjut Trial, as it is called, attendance at natal clinics...