How does physician-assisted suicide affect the family?
e rights and wrongs of physician-assisted suicide have been much debated. Rightly, most of the focus is on the person choosing to die. But what of the families they leave behind? In most circumstances, suicides wreak emotional devastation on families. Guilt, regret, anger, and grief cause much suffering after the suicide of a family member. So, we might expect to find the same emotions triggered by physician-assisted suicide. However, new research suggests that isn’t necessarily the case. In a study in…
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Did Islamic Banks in the Gulf Do Better Than Conventional Ones in the Crisis?:
e IMF’s latest regional economic outlook for the Middle East compares the performance of Islamic banks in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with conventional ones during the global financial crisis. Islamic banks were less affected during the initial phase of the crisis, reflecting a stronger first-round impact on conventional banks through mark-to-market valuations on securities in 2008. But, in 2009, data for the first half of the year indicate somewhat larger declines in profitability for Islamic banks,…
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Washingtonpost.com – In India, More Women Demand Toilets Before Marriage:
ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his bride-to-be an amenity in high demand: a toilet. In rural India, many young women are refusing to marry unless the suitor furnishes their future home with a bathroom, freeing them from the inconvenience and embarrassment of using community toilets or squatting in fields. About 665 million people in India -- about half the population -- lack…
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Clay Shirky on social media/online communities 10/8/09 (Video):
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Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland:
nland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right. The move by Finland is aimed at bringing Web access to rural areas, where access has been limited. Starting in July, telecommunication companies in the northern European nation will be required to provide all 5.2 million citizens with Internet connection that runs at speeds of at least 1 megabit per second. The one-megabit mandate, however, is simply an intermediary step, said Laura Vilkkonen,…
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A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch (Video):
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Are there tricks to being more lucky?
lucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell - a reason to consider a decision carefully. Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same…
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NYTimes.com – The Calorie-Restriction Experiment:
curious aspect of the Calerie project, though, is that it is not meant to study weight loss or if one type of diet is better than another. Instead, Calerie is investigating how (and if) a spartan diet affects the aging process and its associated diseases. To the Calerie researchers, these are quite distinct. The aging process, which researchers sometimes call “primary” or “intrinsic” aging, refers to the damage that ordinarily accumulates in our cells as we grow older, a…
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