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...Taveras stated in the press release, “the earliest interventions will have the greatest long-term benefits...
...With Iran having refused to accept the terms of an international offer to exchange most of its enriched-uranium stockpile for reactor fuel, the Obama Administration had hoped to up the ante with new U.N. sanctions by February. But diplomats say June is more likely the earliest point at which the Security Council could be persuaded to act. And even in the best-case scenario, new U.N. sanctions are unlikely to carry the "bite" promised by Clinton - measures that would inflict sufficient pain on Iran to change the calculations of its regime. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...
There are problems with many of these studies, however. For starters, the Danish one - which reviewed the medical records of people who had signed up for cell phones from 1982 to 1995 - didn't include all the business users, who were among the earliest adopters and most intensive users, because they were not billed directly...
...Integrate Policy, Politics and Communication. By the end of Bush's two terms, even some of his supporters were disappointed (and, at times, horrified) by how much of the decisionmaking at the highest levels of government were more a result of political machinations than rigorous, substantive policymaking. From its earliest days, Obama's White House has failed to put in place the necessary procedures and personnel to move strong, serious ideas along the conveyor belt from the minds of wonky experts cloistered in the Old Executive Office Building chambers to the President's lips as he introduces new initiatives...
...there are signs that the President and his staff are working to address at least some of them - for instance, by adding new policy heft to the chief of staff's office. The more cautionary note, however, is that Bush never solved these problems, which plagued him from his earliest months in the White House until the day he left. Candidate Obama's repudiation of Bush's eight-year presidency was focused on his predecessor's ideology. He should have taken stock of Bush's executive process as well...