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...with Obama and Hu. There is, to be sure, a certain amount of ego involved in his vision. But it also speaks to a general truth about Australian identity. "Australians really do want to exert maximum effort to be taken seriously in the world," says William Tow, an expert on Australia's Asia-Pacific relations at the Australian National University in Canberra. The Lowy Institute's Fullilove puts it another way: "Australians are joiners. We're always thinking about what new international organizations can be established so that we can join them...
...press a "reset" button with Russia, while Moscow, for its part, seeks a normal, stable and predictable relationship with the U.S. But neither side knows where and how to start. "Both are trying to figure out what they can get out of the relationship," says Coit Blacker, a Russia expert at Stanford University and former adviser to the Clinton Administration. "There's a lot of head-scratching going...
...long record of negotiations: the two phases of START - the first ratified in 1991, just before the Soviet Union collapsed, and the second signed in 1993 - led to an 80% reduction in the worldwide number of strategic nukes. A follow-on treaty would probably trim the arsenals further. Experts think a deal is possible. "We're in a strange 'back to the future' stage of relations with Russia," says Strobe Talbott, a Russia expert, former Deputy Secretary of State and president of the Brookings Institution. "The one thing we can do business on is arms-control treaties...
...here because there are inadvertent overdoses with this drug that are fatal.' DR. JUDITH KRAMER, an expert on a Food and Drug Administration panel that recommended banning painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet and reducing the maximum dosage of Tylenol because the products contain acetaminophen, a drug associated with liver damage...
...findings bear out, they may herald a potential new treatment for an age-old condition. As psychiatric symptoms go, hair-pulling is among the earliest recorded. According to Dr. Jon Grant, a trichotillomania expert at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the lead author of the new paper, Hippocrates himself said that in order to test whether patients were faking their illness, doctors must ask whether they are pulling out their hair. The behavior is so commonly associated with distress that the stock phrase to describe a stressful situation is that it causes you to tear your hair...