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...eldest daughter, who's only 12. Santina lives close enough to the hospital that she can do some casual labor in Matany during the day, then take the money she earns home for her young children. Most women, however, live too far from the hospital, and some must spend weeks away from their families...
...gave them that option. [By providing antidepressants for sale over the counter,] you're inadvertently promoting a particular path of dealing with these issues - an easier and cheaper path - so of course people will choose it. How much of a choice is it when you say, "Well you could spend thousands of dollars getting proper treatment, or you could pay $5 on antidepressants. It's up to you!" Some people won't [take that path], but a lot of people will. Then you also risk undermining or taking valuable resources away from more intensive treatment that involves therapy or communication...
What do presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have in common - aside from the obvious? They all love green-collar jobs. Obama promises to spend $150 billion over 10 years to create 5 million new green-collar jobs. Clinton references the term repeatedly on the trail, and says her energy plan will create millions of new green-collar jobs as well. McCain is less willing to cite numbers, but he too assures campaign audiences that action to decarbonize America's economy will produce "thousands, millions of new jobs in America...
...just that she says times are hard and "we're not where we need to be"; with that, the vast majority of the country agrees. She goes further, worrying out loud about the country's lack of fairness, the corrosive cynicism of its citizens and how Americans "spend more time talking about what we can't do, what won't work, what can't change" than about what is possible. "The challenges that we are really facing have very little to do with health care and all the practical things that people like to think about," she told TIME...
...politicians who spend most of their time trying to convince us of their earnestness, navigating this ironic comedy landscape can be tricky, sometimes excruciating. Last weekend on Saturday Night Live, John McCain tried to defuse the age issue by making his own old jokes, cracking about his "children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren..." Yet it was McCain's former rival Mike Huckabee who provided the campaign's most squirm-inducing moment, in his own SNL appearance a couple of months earlier. After a tongue-in-cheek Weekend Update commentary, the punch line was that the candidate wouldn't leave...