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...patients who are given the drugs primarily as a treatment of asthma - even without a diagnosis of GERD - the medication may not be doing any good. "It is not going to help their asthma," Mastronarde says. What's more, the drugs may lead to unnecessary side effects and unwarranted cost...
...both of which are open to the public (for a fee). The morning talk will be an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and its four noble truths. The afternoon talk is called "A Path to Peace and Happiness." Tickets for both the morning and afternoon events, held in Gillette Stadium, cost $37.50. Tickets for the afternoon event only cost $22.50—proving once and for all that happiness is not free...
...control advocates, this dynamic is bitterly ironic. Tough government talk against firearms, amplified by the Obama Administration's popularity, has actually helped spark a sales increase. It's yet another cost of good intentions...
...recession is another factor in the sales jump. Guns are expensive - Baker, for example, paid $200 for her shotgun - yet fear trumps the cost of a weapon for people worried that the economic crisis will lead to more crime. "Protection of the family, protection of the home, is utmost on people's minds," says Keffer. Many big cities have indeed seen crime tick higher during the downturn. But in the wrong psyche, this sentiment can carry deadly consequences. For example, the mother of the Pittsburgh man who shot and killed the police officers said her son had been stockpiling guns...
...battle next door will be far more complicated than anything they have seen, simply because the Pakistani military doesn't have the skills and resources to conduct an effective counterinsurgency. U.S.-operated Predator drones have successfully targeted al-Qaeda leadership in the border areas, but at the cost of inflaming the Pashtun-led insurgency on the Pakistan side. Stabilizing Afghanistan might well become crucial to preventing the far more terrifying prospect of an Islamist takeover in Pakistan. Says U.S. Army Brigadier General John Nicholson Jr., who commands U.S. and NATO troops in southern Afghanistan: "If the Pashtun population of Pakistan...