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Study: Optimistic Women Live Longer
It’s getting tougher these days to think of the glass as half full rather than half empty, but if you’re going to survive this economic crisis — literally — you might as well try. That’s the lesson from a large study of death rates in optimistic vs
Food Stamps: More Americans Relying on Uncle Sam to Eat
Just in case we needed more evidence of the hardship inflicted by the country’s devastating economic crisis, earlier this month we got it: more Americans than ever are receiving food stamps. The Department of Agriculture reported that 35.1 million people relied on government help to buy groceries in June — 713,000 more than in the previous month and a 22% jump from the previous year’s figure
In Israel, the Shadow of a New Gaza War
Israeli officials say it so often they’ve taken to apologizing for using the example, acknowledging it’s become a clich: Israel and Hamas can lob shells into and out of the Gaza Strip indefinitely without risking actual war, the explanation begins. Each side wants to appear tough, and over four years the call and response has grown as delicately calibrated as a minuet.
Aldi: A Grocer for the Recession
Just past noon, Anna Chernova, a 68-year-old retiree, pushed her black metal shopping cart into an Aldi store here. After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick’s and Jewel, but no more
Essay: The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
For 13 chilling days in October 1962, it seemed that John F. Kennedy and Nikita S.
Low Levels of Radiation Found in U.S. Milk
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration say that very low levels of radiation have turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state. But federal officials say consumers should not worry
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, with Eyes on Egypt, Boots Prime Minister
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The Debt Dilemma
Leaders of democracies, like bear wranglers at the circus, must be experts at reading moods.
The Grass-Roots Abortion War
The pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. “They connected,” nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen