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...always understand their fragility," writes Gladwell, who is way too smart to be a cheerleader for the immediate. Gladwell argues that blinking is best when it is reinforced by a lifetime of study and expertise. Bush's blinks come in two basic varieties: judgments about people and about broad policy. Bush may be a master at judging people-though one wonders what he saw in Vladimir Putin's soul-but he hasn't spent much time learning the intricacies of getting a bill through Congress or thinking about how the pieces of the puzzle might fit together in the Middle...
...smiles are sure to be broad, the backslapping hearty and, after the surprising success of Iraq's election, the leaders share more common ground than they have in years. Germany is training 500 Iraqi soldiers in the United Arab Emirates, and France says it is ready to train gendarmes. European soldiers are keeping the peace in Afghanistan, and even a Bush critic like Schröder knows that transatlantic cooperation is essential. "Most problems we are grappling with today can and will be solved only through real partnership with the U.S.," the German Chancellor told Time (see interview...
...pain-management clinics such as those at Stanford and UCSF or the Wasser Pain Management Center in Toronto, doctors dive in with a broad array of therapies, devising a program that is tailored to the individual patient. The four main elements of such programs are drugs; injection therapies (nerve blocks like epidurals); physical therapy and exercise; and behavioral techniques that include relaxation training, biofeedback and psychotherapy. "If you ask most physicians how they would treat a patient, they would say, 'I use this drug' or 'I use that drug.' But there are many ways of treating chronic conditions that...
...Says Zeltzer: "You have to be a detective and put all the pieces together." The resulting treatment plan may include pain-killers, but these often have side effects--and because they're usually only tested in adults, they sometimes act unpredictably in kids. Whenever possible, Zeltzer chooses from a broad range of therapies designed to retrain the nervous system...
...last year. Indeed, in Japan, where there are today more mobile-phone numbers than there are fixed-line phones, POTS (plain old telephone service) is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Survival in the future depends upon phone companies' being able to provide businesses and households with a broad slate of communications and entertainment offerings, including Internet-based calling and even cable-TV-style video services. NTT may be big and rich, but the company "is not used to thinking competitively and reacting quickly" to exploit new business opportunities, says Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Hitoshi Hayakawa...