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...Washington ponders its taxation options, it might also wish to cast its gaze toward the NYSE and Nasdaq, whose companies add very little to the public till. In fact, their contribution as a percentage of GDP ranks in the bottom quartile among OECD nations' figures...
...study highlights the difficulty in treating dying children. Parents find it intolerable to witness their child in pain. Yet few parents, understandably, wish to concede that their child's illness is incurable. And that reluctance, combined with an uncertain outlook for many pediatric cancers, makes it much more difficult for caregivers to map out end-of-life treatment plans for seriously ill children. "An uncertain prognosis should be a signal to initiate, rather than to delay, palliative care," wrote the authors of a 2008 study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, Children's Hospital, on pediatric palliative practices...
...went our separate ways and worked on our parts for a few months. Then we all went to this cabin in Big Sur to play together. I always regret how much better songs sound after I tour them. You play them for six months and then wish you could make the album again cause they sound so much better. I wanted to get a little of that effect for the record...
Audiences are so used to movies' easy seductions, with big jokes and jolts, that they may misread or discard the picture's potent message: that some things about ourselves are so painful to acknowledge, we almost wish we could cut them out of our skulls. This, and not the plot gimmickry, is what must have lured Scorsese to Shutter Island: the chance to leave audiences with an illuminating emptiness...
While its increasingly affluent residents may wish to believe they have destiny in their grasp, Santiago - the economic jewel of South America - is perched on a stretch of earth that violently resists all efforts to tame it. Situated along the ring of fire, a hotbed of seismic activity that encircles the Pacific, the plates Chile sits on top of regularly unleash earthquakes of extremely high magnitude - more than a dozen major earthquakes since 1973. Richter can assign them a number, but it is difficult to describe how feverish and angry the earth feels here. The aftershocks this weekend have come...