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Women With AIDS In NYC: Killing Them Softly

Chris Norwood | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Money, Women, Ryan White, Politics, Deaths, Health, Aids, New York City, Crisis, Michael Bloomberg, World AIDS Day, New York News
Chris Norwood

Why, after a decade of decreasing deaths, has New York's progress in reducing women's mortality stumbled so badly? Following the money gives a dismaying answer: the Bloomberg administration.

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Transformation: Giving Thanks For Our Meltdowns

William Horden | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Chrysalis, Natural Healing Process, Taoist, Thanksgiving, Crisis, Healing, Caterpillar, Caterpillar Emerging From Chrysalis, Butterfly, Shamanism, Living News
William Horden

In many shamanic societies it is taken for granted that shamans are not born--they are created by some intense health or emotional crisis. What emerges from such crises is a metamorphosed person.

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Ghost Towns in China Prove GDP Is a Farce

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate, Gdp, China, Crisis, Ghost Towns China, Gross Domestic Product, Ghost Towns, China Economy, Business News
Damien Hoffman

An entire generation has been conditioned to believe economics is the fundamental nature of reality. If the Chinese government pulls a Lehman, the next chapter of history will be messy.

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Will Lady Justice Weigh In on The Greatest Heist in History?

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Crime, Wall Street, Crisis, Politics News
Damien Hoffman

It's one thing for justice to allude Osama bin Laden as he scurries through miles of mountainous terrain. It's another when the assholes who screwed us are sitting in luxury high-rises going about their daily business in plain view.

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Health Insurance Companies Price Gouging the US Economy

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Family, Price Gouging, Americans, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Policy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crisis, Economy, Politics News
Damien Hoffman

At the current pace, on my 54th birthday I can look forward to spending over $1 million a year on healthcare (but my bank will be broken many years earlier).

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Economic Crisis Compels Economists To Reach For New Paradigm

Wall Street Journal | MARK WHITEHOUSE | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Policy, The Fed, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Collateral, University, Mortgage, Credit, Economic Policy, Lenders, Finance, College, Rational Expectations, Bernanke, Crisis, Economists, Banks, Academics, Theory, Colleges, Economic Theory, Universities, Business News

The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Gean...

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Watching The World's Water Quality And Quantity

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Population, Lissa Coffey, Global, Water Pollution, Water, The Giving Life, Sustainability, Conservation, Crisis, Green Living, Matt Damon, Pollution, Sanitation, Living News
Lissa Coffey

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 884 million people are without adequate drinking water, and 2.5 billion people are without adequate water for sanitation.

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Risk-taking Is Back For Banks 1 Year After Crisis

AP | By STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Finance, Banks, Global Economy, Bailout, Regulation, Goldman Sachs, Risk, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Sub-Prime, Lending, Personal Finance, Tarp, Crisis, Economy, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) -- A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Gol...

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Vision Testing Time for Congress

Caroline Myss | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Congress, Nancy Pelosi, American Congress, George W. Bush, Crisis, Predicaments, Reeleciton, Democrats, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Living News
Caroline Myss

We are a nation confounded by predicaments, and predicaments do not have solutions. They require transformations.

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Sharpening the Saw: The End of Summer and Back to Work

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Telephone, Television, Internet, Crisis, Vacation, Recharge, Friedrich Nietzsche, Recession, Cell Phone, Living News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

I hope that as many people as possible have sharpened the saw this summer. Because, dear humans, we will need to be at our best in the days ahead.

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Iran: So Far Away, But Also Mine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Arash Afghahi, Iran Election, Violence, Iran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Youthradio, Contested, Ahmadinejad, Election, Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Cleric, Iran Election 2009, Youth Radio, Disputed, Protests, Crisis, Arrest, Home News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

My cousin in Iran called my uncle often in the early days of mass protests and police crackdowns. Those moments full of hushed tones and furrowed brows would snap us back to the reality of the situation.

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Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?

Joy Bryant | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Causecast, All for Good, Service, The Giving Life, Generosity, Crisis, Summer of Service, Living News
Joy Bryant

The time is now for us to do something, anything in service of another, because we all have a part to play in the prosperity of our country, we all have something to give of ourselves, and we all have something to gain.

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Schwarzenegger's Shock Therapy - Poor Pay For Sins Of The Rich

Avi Lewis | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crisis, Immigration, Bailout, Schwarzenegger, Al Jazeera, Budget, California, Politics News
Avi Lewis

If Schwarzenegger has his way, the price will be paid by health care coverage, welfare, schools and workers.

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Addressing the Convergence of Crises

Tri Robinson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Child Soldiering, Crises, Pandemics, Human Trafficking, Spiritual Confusion, Illiteracy, Global Health Epidemics, Climate Change, Disease, RE:FORM, Environmental Decline, Crisis, Education Reform, World Crises, World Poverty, Aids, Global Warming, Green News
Tri Robinson

When you look at the scope of the world's problems today, the environmental crisis is not one that can be addressed singularly. It is the linchpin of so many different crises.

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Tumbling Down the Incline

Markus Ziener | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Jobs, Crisis, Obama, Unemployment, Foodstamps, Politics News
Markus Ziener

Those who used to be low in the social hierarchy are now quickly landing in the basement. Those who belonged to the middle class are suddenly finding themselves in the lower class.

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How to Survive - And Thrive - in the Face of a Crisis

Brian Whetten | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Financial Crisis, Crisis, Selling by Giving, Coaching, Emotional Support, Living News
Brian Whetten

We can let our fear turn the challenge into a crisis, or we can acquire enough support to turn the challenge into an opportunity.

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Tips From Real, Live, Breathing, Non-Professional People on Dealing With Stress

Liz Spikol | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Blogs, Depression, Tools, Tips, Animals, Advice, Dogs, Happiness, Yoga, Catharsis, Spikol, Socks, Exercise, Crisis, Anxiety, Relaxation, Sleep, Living News
Liz Spikol

Those of us who suffer from mental illness often seek advice on how to make it through each day. No matter how fabulous your meds are, it's still going to be rocky now and then.

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Sarkozy Correct to Shut Down Anglo Saxon Cowboys

Diane Francis | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Oecd, Sarkozy, Economic Crisis, Economy, g20, Crisis, Obama, Anglo Saxon Capitalism, Tax Havens, France, World News
Diane Francis

Sarkozy is right to demand international refereeing. The Anglo-Saxon model spawned excesses, crimes and a flight to the global regulatory vacuum that brought down the world's economic system.

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AIG Plutocrats Pilfer the Public

Diane Francis | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Meltdown, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Larry Summers, Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Counterparties, Credit Default Swaps, Geithner, Wall Street Bailout, Recession, Business News
Diane Francis

What is scandalous is not only the US$165 million in AIG bonuses. It's the US$180 billion which has been shoveled into AIG by taxpayers to date, funds...

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The market bottom? no way Ben

Diane Francis | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Roubini, Economic Crisis, Meltdown, Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Credit Default Swaps, Sucker's Rally, Wall Street Crisis, Recession, Financial Meltdown, Dow, S&P 500, Business News
Diane Francis

Bank stocks had their best week on record last week and early this week as investors bet the bottom had been reached. I don't think so and hope I'm wr...

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Too Young for This: Certifiably Crazy

Alice Crisci | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Emerald, Fight, Neighbor, Church, Redondo Beach, Date, Humor, Breast Cancer, Malibu, Mom and Dad, Journal, Health, Victory, Crisis, Live, Celebrity, Forrest Gump, Love, Dogs, Spirituality, Living News
Alice Crisci

Despite my life, despite cancer, despite over a decade of therapy and a magnitude of self-help books and workshops, I am still as hopeless of a romantic as Meg freakin' Ryan and as melodramatic as an Oscar-winning actress.

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Iraqis Still Unable To Return To War-Ravaged Homes

csmonitor.com | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Humanitarian, Homes, Al Qaeda, Violence, Sunni, Diyala Province, Crisis, Iraq, Insurgent, War Wire, World News

HADI SADOUN, IRAQ - When Sheikh Jamal Sadoun, a prominent Sunni accused of working with the US, returned to his once sprawling eight-bedroom farmhouse...

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The World's Smartest Money Man on the Crisis

Diane Francis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Sub-Prime, Mortgage Crisis Bailout, President Obama, Credit Meltdown, Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, Credit Default Swaps, Obama, Stimulus, Rescue Plan, Canadian, Prem Watsa, Fairfax Financial, Rescue, Financial Crisis, Crisis, Wall Street, Budget Deficits, Business News
Diane Francis

The year 2008 will go down as one of history's worst, but it was the best year in the history of Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.

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Obama's Call to Rebuild

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, President, Leadership, President Obama, Torture, Iraq, Facebook, Economic Recovery Plan, Economic, Republican, Budget Speech, Government, Economic Recovery, Hope, Common Good, Values, Stimulus Plan, Health Care, State of the Union, Leaders, Twitter, Budget, Education, Politics, United States, Inaugural Speech, Barack Obama, Political Vision, Health, Energy Dependence, Barack, Crisis, Republicans, Economy, Obama Budget, Politics News
Jim Wallis

This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.

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Greening Your Office in a Recession

Janet Ritz | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Office, Opportunity, The Environmentalist, Green Office Blog, Economy, Environment, Green, Office, Crisis, Sustainability, Business, Recession, Green News
Janet Ritz

My clients ask me why they should green their office in a recession. I reply that the Chinese use two separate brush strokes for 'crisis': One character stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

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