Word: experts
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...they are expected to offer little overt resistance. In all likelihood U.S. forces would quickly take control of the handful of Haitian armored vehicles, planes, boats and guns. "The Haitians will be lucky to get 1,000 or 1,500 troops to respond," predicts Georges Fauriol, a Haitian expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Of greater concern inside the Pentagon is the possibility that Haitian soldiers would turn to guerrilla warfare, "picking off our guys one or two at a time," in the words of one officer...
...Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program and terrorist activities, including the 1983 attack in Burma that killed a large part of the visiting South Korean Cabinet and a 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. And if someone gets in the way of his succession? Says Dae-Sook Suh, an expert on the Pyongyang regime at the University of Hawaii: "Kim Jong Il will have him killed right away...
...that is the conundrum. How do you draw the line between a spontaneous, high-energy person who is feeling overwhelmed by the details of life and someone afflicted with a neurological disorder? Where is the boundary between personality and pathology? Even an expert in the field like the University of Chicago's Mark Stein admits, "We need to find more precise ways of diagnosing it than just saying you have these symptoms." Barkley also concedes the vagueness. The traits that constitute ADHD "are personality characteristics," he agrees. But it becomes pathology, he says, when the traits are so extreme that...
...Kaysen becomes famous for writing a confessional book, it is her reticence that is most striking. She avoids public-policy debates about Prozac and mental-health coverage. "People think I'm a psychology expert, but I'm not," she says. "I'm a writer." Despite an appearance on Oprah, she has no intention of becoming a poster child for mental illness. "I don't believe I have any obligation to let people into my private life," she says. This may seem like a curious attitude for someone who has made public her years in a mental hospital, but even...
...Harvard Medical School group, along with an expert from the University of Utah, advised the task force on the subjects' danger of cancer...