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Jimmy McCain's deployment will affect more than his family. His father is a leading contender for the White House in 2008. If Jimmy deploys to combat, it appears that McCain will join Franklin Roosevelt to become one of the very few American presidential candidates to have had a son at war. And even the prospect of Jimmy's service will shade the race. Iraq is the most important strategic and political issue facing the U.S. Many Democrats are calling for troop withdrawal to begin immediately, and the Bush Administration is struggling to reduce troop strength...
...Scientists are humans, above all—humans with an abiding faith that truth can be discovered through empirical investigation perhaps, but humans still. There is reason neither for veneration nor trepidation. But why stop there? We should not be afraid to question their conclusions, especially on issues that affect all of us, such as climate change or embryonic stem cells, yet we should be able to do so in an informed way—we should not dismiss these same conclusions just because of an instinctive fear of not understanding where they came from. The best-case scenario...
...other hand, there's something different, even comforting and refreshingly human, about letting the gender of your child affect your decisions. It's not as if daughters were a narrow interest group to be served for political advantage. They make up fully half the nation's population, and their good, I might add, has seldom been served for most of the past two centuries. That congressmen from across the political spectrum feel compelled to take their daughters' interests into account indicates an honest effort to do right by the nation, as well as someone they love. If Powell...
...nurses' station. She was ready to go home, released by Saeed, who wrote in her chart that while she still appeared depressed, she was eating and sleeping "much better." Hospital workers noted that in group therapy, she would still say nothing except her name. Nurses noted that her affect was "flat," her mood "somber" and her judgment still "impaired"; however, she was showering and eating with "minimal prompting." So Rusty took Andrea home...
Theoretically, the Fed chairman isn't all-powerful; whether to raise or lower taxes, for example, isn't up to him. But partly because interest rates, which the Fed does control, fundamentally affect the way consumers and businesses spend money and partly because Greenspan solidified the standing of Fed chairman as a demigod, every thought that Bernanke utters is treated as Delphic. "The U.S. economy appears to be in a period of transition," he told Congress, with the robust growth of the past three years moderating, which in turn should help keep inflation in check. The stock market rallied, anticipating...