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...poll of police officers and firefighters, most of whom lost homes in the storm, found that roughly 20% were experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome and that one in four emergency responders was suffering from major depression. More troubling, perhaps, is a 25% jump in the mortality rate, including a threefold increase in the suicide rate - a conservative estimate since many self-inflicted deaths are classified as accidental...
...concert business booming louder than a Marshall stack? Partly it's a turn in the fashion cycle from dance music - with its DJs, clubs and records - to live shows. But it's also part of a broader shift in the economics of pop music. Despite a threefold increase in digital-music revenue from downloads, global-retail revenues from recorded music fell a further 2% in 2005; overall the figure is down 20% since 1999. That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity...
...initial inspiration is threefold. My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. Those are the three people who molded me. Now my family inspires me, traveling inspires me, my viewers and fans, the people I meet on tours. Talking to people and other chefs, eating out, they all make me better...
...This has been a threefold victory for the Mexican government. First, it eliminates the financial concern of how to care for these people. Second, the citizens who would be the angriest about the government's inadequacies keep leaving the country. Those who would vote, protest, stage walkouts, and revolt-instead keep voting with their feet. Which in turn protects The Powers That Be. And third, as a reward for watching entire communities empty out, they receive a huge influx of cash...
...percent increase in estradiol levels increases a woman’s likelihood to get pregnant threefold, Jasienska said...