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...theories, however, just don’t seem to hold water. These reasons, albeit of noble sentiment, seem superfluous to survival, to the daily nine-to-five grind, to making the next mortgage payment. Can’t this all wait until the economy is back on its feet? Why is it important that we produce...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Role of Artists in the Face of Recession | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...just lost his job at a health insurer, and is afraid he'll never find another one. The other has three kids, one in college, and lost his construction job. The stress caused them to grind their canines and molars. So they each wound up in the office of Dr. Woody Oakes, a dentist from New Albany, Ind., with a fractured tooth. "You do see that - someone lost their job, and they come in with their jaws clenched," says Oakes, who is also editor of the Profitable Dentist magazine. "You can fracture your teeth when you do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dentists: Smiling in the Face of Recession | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...path to that goal is to appoint a truth-finding panel. We could develop and authorize a person or group of people universally recognized as fair-minded and without an ax to grind. Their straightforward mission would be to find the truth. People would be invited to come forward and share their knowledge and experiences, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments but to assemble the facts. If needed, such a process could involve subpoena powers and even the authority to obtain immunity from prosecution in order to get to the whole truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for a Truth Commission | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...either, bageling Natalia Sanchez in the first set and earning a 6-0, 6-1 overall. “Beier Ko and Peterzan led the way,” Green said. “Beier got out there and tore through her opponent very quickly. Laura was able to grind out a tough match to take us to 3-0. Camille then clinched the match, ensuring victory.” Despite the close loss to the Big Green, the Crimson finished the weekend on a high note. Jania did especially well this weekend, boasting a 4-0 record overall...

Author: By Kerry E. Kartsonis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Fifth in ECAC Team Championships | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...people may come away with a fundamental misunderstanding about the science of evolution. Once Darwin mailed his manuscript of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life to his publisher, the science of evolution did not grind to a halt. That would be a bit like saying medicine peaked when Louis Pasteur demonstrated that germs cause diseases. (See a photo-essay on Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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