"[Researchers found] the overall suicide rate rose 0.7 percent during this time, but the rate for white men aged 40 to 64 rose 2.7 percent and for middle-aged women 3.9 percent, the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found."
- Magdalena Donea
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"The rescue package lets the government spend billions of dollars to buy bad mortgage-related securities and other devalued assets held by troubled financial institutions. If successful, advocates say, that would allow frozen credit to begin flowing again and prevent a deep recession."
- Magdalena Donea
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If unsuccessful, do we get the money back?
- Magdalena Donea
Ugh. Sometimes it feels as if there is no intelligent, empathic life on this planet. Why do we think it's OK to harrass artists?
- Magdalena Donea
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via a friend on Facebook, this is an interesting and important follow-up on one episode in history that Sen. Biden definitely had a hand in, and not a very pretty hand. Also as an aside, there are few lawyers in this country I like more than Charles Ogletree, for entirely different reasons.
- Magdalena Donea
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