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...debilitating effects of advanced dementia - how it destroys communication, basic muscle control, even the ability to swallow - are difficult to describe in words. Often, it's not until the condition is witnessed up close that it can really be understood...
...been against other public programs, such as needle exchange, for addicts. So far, there have been no attempts to ban or limit funding for naloxone programs. Says Bigg, who once helped convince a skeptical doctor of their value in a radio debate: "I think people who study it up close realize that you could not have a purer case of a chance for life versus the risk of death...
...barring a big surprise, most people expect Sotomayor to be on the court when it opens its next term in October. The Democrats already have 59 votes in the Senate. And Sotomayor isn't a barn-burning leftist. She tends to write narrowly crafted rulings that focus on close application of the law. She resists rhetorical flourishes and sweeping philosophical statements. Altogether, she's a liberal jurist who will be replacing another mostly liberal vote on the court, David Souter, which means her arrival there won't do much to change the ideological balance. (See pictures of Sotomayor's career...
...begin to understand the situation, the outside world should start by ignoring the standard cliché from the two governments that they are "as close as lips and teeth." Over the years, says Bruce Klingner, a senior analyst at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former deputy chief for Korea in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, the agency's analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other...
...while Pyongyang and Beijing have never been as close as the propaganda would have it, the two countries do have shared interests. It's how much weight to give those interests, relative to the costs of supporting Pyongyang internationally, that vexes Beijing's leadership. Just as there have been tensions in Washington over how to handle the North - during the Bush Administration, those favoring a harder line prevailed at first, before the State Department's "negotiate now, negotiate forever" camp took over - so, too, are there conflicting opinions in Beijing over what to do. As described by a diplomatic source...