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...“In other countries – South America, Asia – families care for families, but here we take care of one another. It’s just ingrained in the American psyche,” she says....
...In my neighbourhood park in Paris, a group of local Chinese geriatrics gather every morning for exercise. All this improves community too. Sure, it costs money....
...A lot of managers were only interested in saving money on wages. They didn’t care about the quality of care.” Once she heard a nurse slapping a patient....
...The hardship and degradation of poverty follows Dickens’ example, as does the longing for love and protection: a broken foster-care system replaces a broken school, a meth lab in the back of a gas station...
...University’s Center for Talented Youth, notes Jonathan Wai of the University of Arkansas....
...All this is depressing if you care about the future, but demographically, ever fewer voters of Britain’s default ruling party do....
...“I say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a new sheriff in town. As of 5pm today, all your credit cards have been shut off,’” he recalls....
...Pete Myers was one of the first to alert the world to the dangers of EDCs when, along with another scientist and a journalist, he published the 1996 best-seller, Our Stolen Future....
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...I’m not seeking advice and consolation — because everywhere I turn it’s being thrown at me for free....
...In these edgy conversations, boys watch, figure out where the boundaries lie, and get offensive views out of their system. “The issue is when our online lives become so much of our time,” Barker adds....
...when we think we’ve got right on our side....
...Then, sitting on a sofa, she speaks directly to camera: “When I was diagnosed with cancer, he was the dad who took care of my children when I could not....
...“We’re being overwhelmed, and it’s happening really fast,” said Catherine O’Neal, infectious disease specialist with Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge....
...“These are the darkest days of this pandemic,” Catherine O’Neal, chief medical officer of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told reporters this week....
...We all take our consolation in different guises and measures (I like a cocktail pianist singing his heart out. You may like the diamond bars of the confessional grille)....
...We have seen political commitment from the presidents of Indonesia, Mozambique and the Philippines; the prime ministers of India and Pakistan and Nigeria’s First Lady....
...It does, however, bring back quince — a wonderful consolation prize....
...Art was the way to his heart and consolation to his nervous mind. His collection is a feast, telling of wealth and learning, love and inspiration, diplomacy and war....
...“We don’t care what [Burners] believe, we care about what’s their experience . . . We’re all about emergent behaviour.”...
...Many friends of our family who know Dad’s diagnosis shrink from using the “A” word at all....
...The US is losing its identity amid globalisation, illegal immigration and moral degradation, argues Ms Lucas, a stern woman who is a semi-retired geriatric care manager. “Russia is a strong country....
...in 1977, and then ran tours of the US musicals Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady for the Arts Council....
...The problem is that geriatrics and palliative care are often not sexy – or well-paid – branches of medicine. As a result, they lack recruits....
...But it captures our repulsion at the idea of a country with more geriatrics than gurgling babies. Almost subliminally, we think, such a place must offend against nature itself....
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