Word: distress
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...bonds held by banks may be covered by the TARP capital they have received from the government or the money that they have been asked to raise as a result of the "stress test" process. That leaves the more important issue of what it means when the financial distress of the wealthy and nearly wealthy begins to look like the money problems of everyone else. The country counts on the rich for a large portion of it tax receipts. The new budget assumes that upper income households will pay an even larger part of their earnings each year from...
...hard to read Reyna Hernandez's distress behind her blue surgical mask. But you can hear it. "This is a very difficult time especially for our children," the Mexico City housewife says as she waits outside the National Institute for Respiratory Diseases (INER) on the metropolis' south side. Inside the hospital, her 38-year-old husband, a taxi driver and father of their three kids, lies in a bed, unconscious and barely alive, she says, battling what doctors have told Hernandez may well be swine flu - but which was originally misdiagnosed. More than two weeks ago, her husband developed...
...went back to the doctor by herself. She had coughed up blood that day and had a 40-degrees Celsius fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Her husband says the doctor recommended another medicine. "It did not work," Jose Luis says. Adela's cough became worse, she was suffering from respiratory distress and her hands and feet were showing signs of cyanosis - that is, they were turning blue. On April 8, they returned to the doctor a third time. It was then, Jose Luis says, "the doctor told us to take her to the Civil Hospital...
...drugs work by inhibiting an enyzme chemical helper that the flu virus uses to spread from infected human cells to healthy ones. So while not killing the virus, it helps the body fight off the disease by slowing its spread. This, in turn, may help prevent "acute respiratory distress syndrome" - the sudden worsening of flu that, along with secondary lung infections, is a main cause of death among influenza patients. There is also evidence to suggest that they can be used prophylactically - to prevent rather than treat the disease. "We don't have many tools in our medicine cabinet...
...hillside classroom in Medellín, a group of teenage boys take crayons to long sheets of unfurled paper. One draws the detonation pin of a hand grenade. Another sketches blood splattered across a body. Scrawled words say what the pictures can't: Hunger. Kidnappings. Revenge. Displacement. Distress...