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...book which he called The Man Who Wouldn't Die. The longtime Washington columnist had been told that his days were numbered after refusing dialysis treatments for his failing kidneys. But he didn't die, and returned home, continuing to write. Clearly he found it enormously amusing to catch the medical profession flat-footed. He was a little pale when I saw him, but his voice was strong and his mind was as sharp as the day we'd met back in the 1970s, when he had stopped by the Newsweek office where I then worked, to crack jokes with...
...Things went wrong and are continuing to go wrong under President Bush's management of both global and domestic affairs in large part because the press has not done its job well. Now, journalists who should have done some serious investigative work five years ago are playing catch-up. How much responsibility for this turmoil are the subservient and compliant media prepared to accept? The press alone is not to be blamed for the crisis, but it has connived too readily in its own debasement. Javed Akbar Markham, Canada...
...inside the head as never before. Detailed maps of thousands of genes reveal the DNA blueprint that allows the brain to exist at all. More powerful psychoactive drugs let us understand the chemistry of the brain and fix it when it goes awry. In this issue, we catch up on the latest breakthroughs in this fast-moving field...
...catch Saddam but drop the ball on Osama...
...atop about 115 billion barrels of oil reserves - the fourth largest in the world after Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran - and about 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. What is more, much of the oil is relatively easy to reach and cheap to pipe out. There is a catch, however: the infrastructure is in dire shape. Even before this war, rigs and wells had lain rotting for years, since the crippling war with Iran in the 1980s sapped the economy and international sanctions in the 1990s left Iraq in bad need of spare parts. "The consequences have been really...