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What you did miss was an amazing week of political theater, starring the frenetic, operatic, borderline erratic McCain, the former fighter pilot who seems to have found his calling as a kamikaze politician. He might not win the election - another thing you missed this week was Barack Obama pulling ahead in the polls - but when it's over he's a shoo-in for a show on TNT. RuPaul doesn't know drama like McCain knows drama...
Construction Ahead One reason scientists have been surprised by the ferment in the teenage brain is that the brain grows very little over the course of childhood. By the time a child is 6, it is 90% to 95% of its adult size. As a matter of fact, we are born equipped with most of the neurons our brain will ever have - and that's fewer than we have in utero. Humans achieve their maximum brain-cell density between the third and sixth month of gestation - the culmination of an explosive period of prenatal neural growth. During the final months...
...Earlier in the day some on Capitol Hill had speculated that the Democrats might try to go ahead, with their Senate Republican colleagues, to pass the plan without the support of most if not all House Republicans; there was even talk that they might include it as part of a continuing budget resolution to keep the federal government going that House Republicans would have a hard time voting against. But Pelosi made clear Friday afternoon that that was not a viable option: "We don't have the votes to do thatl that is our members have some reluctance on this...
...getting to the Jewish State, thanks to the cultural conservatism of its founding leaders. Indeed, Thursday's Tel Aviv gig by Sir Paul McCartney marks a long-delayed concert debut in Israel by the former Beatle, who has endeared himself to a new generation of Israeli fans by going ahead with the show despite death threats from a radical Islamic cleric in Lebanon who vowed that "If he values his life, Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting...
...abiding by the nuclear agreement. Washington wants the inspectors to have as much freedom as possible, able to go pretty much wherever they want whenever they want. To a secretive, paranoid regime like the North's, that's unacceptable. The question is whether the Administration should have gone ahead and removed Pyongyang from the list and then plunged into the verification stage...