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Geither was wise to use his unexpected popularity to ask for something that Congress would normally be reluctant to give. Spreading the regulation of the financial and credit systems around to a number of agencies has meant that one never became terribly powerful. Consequently, Congress could always keep its hand in the game by helping to decide which arms of the government should care for the most complex and, at this point, most troubled part of the system...
...consumers - which they easily could - the authors of Know Your Chances offer two more tools. The first is a simple guide to credible sources of health stats, including the Center for Medical Consumers and Informed Health Online. The second is a pair of simple questions we should all ask ourselves before we make a medical decision: Does the drug or treatment we're considering have any important risks and does it offer a reasonably good chance of doing us real good? A yes to the first and a no to the second is bad news; a no to the first...
...other soldiers treat your unit differently? It was sort of funny that when we'd chat with other Marines in the chow hall and they'd ask what we did, they would sort of stop talking with us. I think it definitely made our unit closer...
...command of the Iraqi security forces." Top U.S. military commanders in Nineveh say Nujaifi's stance is just electoral bluster. But he insists he is being serious. Nujaifi says that as soon as he is sworn in and the new government is seated, he will request that Baghdad formally ask the Kurdish regional government in Erbil to withdraw its peshmerga from Nineveh...
...Other places like, say, Afghanistan. At the NATO meeting, Obama is widely expected to ask for more European assistance in Afghanistan, and Chacón herself, who in December lifted Spain's 3,000-person ceiling on troops abroad, has made it clear she is open to the request. (Vote for the 2009 TIME 100 Finalists...