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Someday, historians will find in the saga of New Orleans a 21st century morality tale about wealth and poverty, black and white, man and nature. We chose to focus on the woeful lack of preparedness for the future as a symbol of the same dearth of responsibility that gave us Katrina in the first place. Our special report is built around a powerful cover story written and reported by senior correspondent Michael Grunwald, who has been obsessed with New Orleans since Katrina. Michael, who is the author of The Swamp, a well-received book on the Everglades, explores...
Some friends cause hypertension, some cause inebriation and some, it is now confirmed, cause obesity. Or the opposite. The study concludes that skinny people, likewise, tend to make their friends skinny. In high school, you could have chosen a friend with a six-pack of abs. Instead, you chose a friend with a six-pack of Coors. And that, as Frost wrote, has made all the difference...
...read-out of his brain wave activity, could help; any abnormalities in the EEG increase the likelihood of another seizure, says French, and would argue for starting drug treatment. There are more than 20 anti-seizure medications from which Roberts and his physicians can now chose; some work to corral the hyperactivity in one area of the brain, while others prevent the electrical anomalies from occurring to begin with. All have to be taken daily, but have relatively mild side effects...
...Understandably, not many of the Big neo-con thinkers chose to sit for Feguson's cameras, but one of them, a slippery, sneering and supercilious man named Walter Slocombe, a senior advisor to CPA, did. He was a reluctant warrior, whose visits to Iraq were few and brief. But he says he was in constant contact with Col. Paul Hughes, who was struggling to keep the Iraqi army intact. Hughes is a polite, low-keyed sort of guy, but when asked about his contacts with Slocombe he finally cracks. Mostly what they discussed, he says, was what kind...
...Encouraged by her new boyfriend Wang Ning, a keen snowboarder, Vicky decided earlier this year to take up the sport as well. To prime for it, she went to a mall in south Beijing that specializes in pricey, imported skiing gear. She chose a gleaming new snowboard made by the Colorado company Never Summer, emblazoned with colorful, psychedelic paintings of butterflies. Along with gloves, goggles and other paraphernalia, the new gear set her back about $700. When asked about the wisdom of spending a small fortune on equipment for a sport she may never take to, she says, "I believe...