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Armed with these powerful arguments, I called Mama Ann and asked her to explain her concerns about Obama. "First, the man hasn't got the experience," she said. "I also think he's a Muslim." When I tried to convince her that he's a Christian, she said, "There are good Muslims and bad Muslims--that I have to admit. Just like there are good and bad Jews." When I cautiously reminded her that Obama goes to church, which I know she's well aware of, she still wasn't convinced. "I think he is. He went to Muslim schools...
...respond to them, hormonal contraceptive treatments have been shown to be 100% effective in clinical trials. But studies have also shown that 10% to 15% of men don't respond to hormonal treatments at all - a fairly high nonresponder rate. Researchers don't yet know how to explain those failures. One inherent stumbling block is that a male contraceptive must block millions of sperm, as opposed to a single egg. (The Pill had it easy.) Another is race: according to several proof-of-concept studies, Asian men maintained a suppressed sperm count with greater frequency than Caucasians, but researchers still...
...liken the experience of communing with spirits to "going on automatic pilot." Can you explain what it feels like...
...That may explain why Obama and his wife have visited the state five times since he clinched the Democratic nomination and have made more stops in Oakland County than in any other part of the state. McCain has been to Michigan six times since mid-March, stopping in Oakland once. By mid-July, the two campaigns had spent at least $5.6 million on television advertising in the state. And as the economy has worsened this summer, both candidates have talked of shifting Michigan to a greener economy and developing biofuels and electric cars in lieu of SUVS and trucks...
...That post-Sharon political drift, combined with the serial reversals suffered by the Bush Administration across the Middle East - and its lame-duck status as the region waits for a new U.S. President - may at least explain why Israel's political class had been willing to allow Olmert to stumble on for so long. Now, Israel's leaders will be forced to forge a new equilibrium in a more testing time...