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...study was small, and the children of the parents who participated were treated at three hospitals (two in Boston and one in Minneapolis-St. Paul), which does not lend much statistical power to its findings. But given the considerable social stigma about euthanasia in the U.S., where only two states, Oregon and Washington, have legalized physician-assisted suicide, researchers think that the percentage of parents admitting to having thoughts about hastening death is probably lower than reality. (See how to prevent illness...
...Chris Tucker together in “Rush Hour” or Martin Lawrence in “Blue Streak,” “National Security,” or “Bad Boys,” the normally-funny dynamics of characters and plot lend themselves to successful films. With hysterical love/hate relationships between the partners, the usually high-paced and unrealistic save-the-world plots, goofy slip-ups, and ass-kicking repartee, the genre has always offered a lot to audiences. But “Cop Out” surely gives the genre...
...general, political jobs don’t lend themselves quite as well to on-campus recruiting,” said Harvard College
...Real estate agents who aim to make a profit will have less incentive to be deceptive because they will shop at the same small businesses that will require loans from the local bank to operate, which in turn will require the homeowners to be current on their mortgages to lend out more money...
...rereleased Beatles albums, EMI's record division is expected to make $312 million, with the publishing sector bringing in an additional $218 million. That will cover Terra Firma's interest bill of about $350 million. But it's not enough to keep Citigroup happy - the bank had agreed to lend the venture-capital firm $4.2 billion only if EMI could hit certain performance targets. As EMI's accounts dolefully note, there is a "significant shortfall" between the profit likely to be generated in 2010 and the target previously agreed upon...