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Bernanke's Good News, Bad News: Purchases of durable goods increasing especially rapidly; housing market remains weak, with the overhang of vacant or foreclosed houses weighing on home prices and construction more »

... doubts about what treatments are in the best interests of the patient, uncertainty about treatment choices that are based on religious or cultural imperatives, the extent to which non-medical facts and circumstances impact a decision to offer organ transplant for a particular patient, whether a patient is being made to suffer unnecessarily by reducing or withdrawing pain medication ... more »

In the United States, in particular, parents contribute sizable material and emotional support through their children's late twenties and into their early thirties. Such flows are to be expected in more privileged families, but what is now striking are the significant flows — and associated strains — in middle-class families at a time when families themselves have become increasingly stressed or fractured. more »

Many say that men get more opportunities than equally qualified women for jobs that pay well and that life is generally better for men than it is for women in their countries. This is especially so in some of the wealthier nations surveyed. more »