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...only have rates risen sharply from midyear record lows, but they have never been more volatile. Since mid-July, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has fluctuated as much as .25% a day at least 10 times, according to the Mortgage Market Guide. That's not normal; over the two years before mid-July, rates bounced that much in a day only once...
...Services (PFG), announces a 37% increase in deaths from Aug. 4 to Aug. 10 compared with the same week last year. AUG. 14 The Health Ministry puts the estimated death toll at 3,000. Raffarin cuts short his vacation and returns to Paris. Just before temperatures finally return to normal, the French government launches a nationwide emergency plan to provide extra hospital beds and staff. AUG. 18 Health Minister Jean-François Mattei says the estimate of 5,000 heat- related deaths is "plausible." Surgeon general Lucien Abenhaïm resigns, citing "the present controversies surrounding the handling...
...There is a legitimate philosophical difference here, and it involves the difference between voluntarism and service. Voluntarism is the act of doing valuable things that fall just outside the normal scope of governance. Service is more intense: it is a full-time commitment to do the most difficult public works-policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly ?litist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest...
...hope he can resume a normal life, but this outcome makes it somewhat difficult for him to do that," Little said...
...Operational Ethics I never thought of those who worked to separate the Bijani twins [July 21] as anything but heroes. The medical-team members risked their peace of mind to offer those two brave women a chance at a normal life. Both twins knew what the outcome might be. But life conjoined was so intolerable they were willing to risk death to end their suffering. The saddest irony to me was seeing their two coffins. The twins were individuals at last, but only in death. Marie H. Medoro Mississauga, Canada...