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...Episode I - The Phantom Menace. He showed me a video of a couple of the boys watching the scene, and I was shocked: even the ADHD kids who had spun around endlessly during their cognitive tests sat perfectly still while they watched the pod race. The film clip required almost no working memory, no concentrated effort. The scene simply washed over the passively watching boys, none of whom had to move around to stay alert...
...month by the nonprofit Families USA, found that about 87 million people - roughly 1 in 3 Americans - went without health insurance for some period between 2007 and 2008. "The huge number of people without health coverage is worse than an epidemic," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "Almost everyone in the country has had a family member, neighbor or friend who was uninsured." (Read the five truths about health care in America...
...Read "The Case of Ivan the Almost-As-Terrible...
...feel their region was neglected during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies. "This was a long time coming," says Richard Wiles, the Democratic sheriff of El Paso County, Texas, which sits across the Rio Grande from Juárez, Mexico - a city that has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders since the start of 2008, with many of the victims being police officers, not to mention the epidemic of kidnappings and extortion. (Nationwide, Mexico had almost 7,000 narco-killings during that time.) Says Wiles: "It's a shame that it took so many killings...
...should be sent as well. The White House, however, seems cool to the idea of militarizing the border, especially since potential gringo military intervention is one of the key concerns Mexicans have about the Merida Initiative, a bilateral antidrug plan that began last year and is supposed to funnel almost $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to Mexico over three years...