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...Pentagon has long recognized that keeping families calm back home makes for better warriors overseas. "The stresses of deployment might be softened if spouses, and especially children, could conduct simple conversations with their loved ones in immediate times of stress or prolonged absence," says the Pentagon solicitation. "We are looking for innovative applications that explore and harness the power of advanced interactive multimedia computer technologies to produce compelling interactive dialogue between service members and their families via a PC- or Web-based application using video footage or high-resolution 3-D rendering...
Linehan also taught Lily various skills to regulate her emotions. Among the most important is one Linehan calls the "wise mind" - a kind of calm, Zen state that Linehan insists even the most debilitated patients can achieve. "Generally," she writes, "I have patients follow their breath ... and try to let their focus settle into their physical center, at the bottom of their inhalation. That very centered point is wise mind." Lily remembers this sensation clearly; she came to feel that her dark moods had a physical location in her body - her solar plexus - and when she focused...
...Islamic extremists--from al-Qaeda to Hizballah to Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--have gained great advantage from the anti-American anger in the Arab and Muslim world that the Gaza crisis has brought to a boil. They had feared that Obama, with his appealing narrative and middle name, would calm the waters and so dilute their influence. They now see an opportunity in the Gaza crisis to brand Obama as no different from Bush...
...three-hour cessation of fighting today was the first of what both Israeli and Hamas officials said would be a parenthesis of calm every 24 or 48 hours. That pause is intended to create a humanitarian corridor allowing aid workers to get badly needed food, water and medical assistance to Gaza's bloodied and traumatized population. According to U.N. officials in Gaza, the area's 1 million residents have been without electricity since the Israeli assault to silence Hamas missile firings began; 75% of those inhabitants are deprived of running water, and many can't risk going out for provisions...
...time he was here two weeks, I could see how calm things were...He increased the confidence level." - Bill Clinton, on Panetta's debut as White House Chief of Staff, Washington Post...