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Biographer Robert D. Richardson Jr. contends that by literally confronting death (ghoulish as it seems), Emerson was able to pull out of his funk and get back to the business of becoming a great American philosopher.
Agencies need to be able to measure success.
The decision by a federal monitor to keep Teamsters president Ron Carey from running for re-election leads at the Washington Post , USA Today , and the Wall Street Journal . The terrorist attack on tourists in Egypt leads at the New York Times . The Los Angeles Times goes with a federal court decision that ensures that next year Californians will be able to vote across party lines in primary elections.
"Anything we can do to encourage the family unit and encourage spouses who are able to stay at home with their children, if that is their desire, we should do it."
Because 5-year survival data were not available for some patients, we were not able to evaluate survival outcome.