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Recognizing that tangible changes can happen gradually through small steps, Simmons said that she has already made personal changes in her life by teaching her children to behave in more sustainable ways...
...First, GDP goes up. That's happened," he said. "Then hours that are worked by workers who already have jobs go up. That's starting to happen... Then unemployment starts to come down...
...Although Army officials don't blame the spike on repeated deployments to war zones, evidence is mounting to the contrary. Only about a third of Army suicides happen in war zones, officials note, and another third are among personnel who had never deployed. But that means two-thirds of Army suicides have deployed, many returning home with mental scars that make them prone to take their own lives, the Army's No. 2 officer said last week. (See pictures of an Army town's struggle with PTSD...
...many in the Administration the biggest economic concern is the country's stubbornly high unemployment. The best way to attack that problem is to stimulate small-business growth, but that won't happen as long as banks sharply limit lending to smaller companies. For their part, bankers feel they are responding prudently to a tough economy by tightening loan standards across the board. And while some of the biggest banks are healthy enough to pay back the government's emergency loans made from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, many smaller banks remain in crisis. So far this year the Federal...
Miller, who treats her singing career as an extracurricular, said she writes songs about things that happen to her and her friends. "Sometimes a phrase just strikes me and I go with it," she said. "I usually come up with words and melodies when I'm in the shower or doing dishes or something, and then when enough words are there I go to a practice room and actually make a song...