The global financial crisis has seen many countries suffer severely in economic terms and yet levels of peacefulness have increased.

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If Washington doesn't change course--and the House vote for a monstrous health care bill demonstrates it won't--incumbents, who these days are mostly Democrats, will suffer severely next November.

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The question of why severely depressed patients suffer from infections more often than the average person attracted the attention of Gregory Miller, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh.

ECONOMIST: The power of negative thinking

That brings up the question, if someone, a member of your family, or someone who is a witness to these proceedings, had a serious case in which oneself, one's property, one's family has been severely damaged, would you suffer without a whimper perjurious testimony given against you?

CNN: Transcript: House manager Gekas' statement on the law