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...method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right to euthanasia point out that the overall suicide rate has not risen. They put another interpretation on the numbers: people who would have killed themselves anyway are switching to less grisly means...
This album establishes that Pearl Jam has more than risen above its origins. It has incorporated its sound into older musical traditions, and created something...
...less expensive than care provided by private doctors. A new study by the general Accounting Office, however, states that "little empirical evidence exists on the cost savings of managed care." The chart tracks the percent increases in health care costs and shows that HMO costs have risen almost as fast as those of private doctors...
...record torrent of their hard- earned cash into mutual funds, this should be the best of times. Last Thursday the Dow Jones industrial average went over 3700 for the first time ever, bearing with it the yields on many stock and bond funds. The average aggressive-growth fund has risen 29% in the past 12 months. Corporate-bond funds gained 13% overall. Commercial banks, fully aware how anemic their certificate-of-depo sit rates look in comparison, are actively luring customers into the wealth-generating world of funds. As a result, mutual funds sold through banks now account for about...
...musically totalitarian 12-tone system has enabled a thousand melodic flowers to bloom. No longer do the words contemporary music mean two hours of agonistic screaming and clangorous orchestral Klangfarbenmelodie. For another, audiences raised on show-biz special effects demand large-scale spectacle, and innovative opera producers have risen to the challenge; not since the days of Meyerbeer at the Paris Opera have set design and direction loomed so large...