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...northern, Tajik-majority province of Panjshir. Washington can assist Karzai by speeding up the flow of foreign aid and by ensuring that it reaches the far corners of a country that has been ravaged by a six-year drought. With a little help from NATO friends, Washington must also extend the reach of the military civil-reconstruction teams into the mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received...
...first 78 minutes of action, Sunday’s matchup between the two top teams in the Ivy League seemed like it would play out as most of Dartmouth’s games this season—a tight-fought draw that would extend into the extra period...
Third, the council needs to extend the campaigning period from one week to several weeks. This could be part of moving the elections back. The current one-week-system contributes to a good portion of the chaos. Given the brief window to garner votes, it is only logical that candidates adopt blitzkrieg tactics. With a longer campaigning period, the same tactics may be employed but without the brevity. Instead of a quick handshake, a substantive discussion of concerns and ideas may occur. And the sense of impersonality driven by the “Hi, vote for me, bye?...
...explanations have been offered for how SEGT might extend life. The first is that by enhancing the women's joie de vivre, the therapy revs up the immune system, which keeps the cancer in check for longer. Some of the Thursday Girls subscribe to this theory, and science hasn't entirely discredited it. But the weight of evidence suggests it's flimsy. While depression has been shown to affect outcome in some conditions, there's no clear link with cancer. "One myth for sure is that avoiding stress and being positive has survival benefits," says Jane Turner, a Brisbane psychiatrist...
...preferred theory for how SEGT may extend life is that it affects patients' behavior: that is, they're more likely to persist with treatments with unpleasant side effects, or begin new ones. They may do this because they've been inspired by a fellow group member, or because they've heard first-hand that a certain drug or alternative therapy is worth a try. That the effect of this might be to give some women an extra year or more of life appears to be a "valid hypothesis," says New York therapist Kissane, but even when the results...