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...while they have had to withstand longer lines at airports and higher prices for gasoline. All these changes, great and small, have masked the fact that 9/11 has changed Americans' instincts, too. And so even if it can be rationally defended, a deal that would not have raised an eyebrow six years ago is simply unimaginable to many people today...
...Kari Stefansson can trace his ancestry back 1,100 years. That's almost unheard of in the U.S., but in his native Iceland, where genealogy is a national obsession, it hardly raises an eyebrow. The island nation is a genetic anomaly: settled by a few Norsemen and Celts in the 9th century A.D. and relatively free of later immigration, it is among the most genetically homogeneous countries on earth. And in the late 1990s, when scientists were racing to map the human genome, Stefansson realized that Iceland's genetic isolation and unrivaled genealogical records made it a potential gold mine...
...Robinson manned the point, as usual. The results were mixed. Hallion (15 points) and Tay (nine points) each accomplished career highs in scoring, and Robinson added 14 points. But the three guards also committed 10 of the team’s 18 turnovers. And except for intermittent bursts of eyebrow-raising skill?especially in the team’s strong second half?Hallion and Tay lacked the aggressiveness that had Delaney-Smith raving during preseason practices. “Lindsay and Emily have a lot of talent,” she said, “and they?...
After months of denying that it was even considering plans to withdraw some troops, the Bush Administration last week shed first light on a possible timetable for trimming America's presence in Iraq. Pushed by newly assertive politicians at home as well as an eyebrow-raising statement from Iraq's leaders, and with a view toward congressional elections next fall, senior Bush officials began openly debating just how fast a withdrawal might proceed...
...tone it down. A suicide car bomber had just torn the front off a hotel in central Baghdad. Cable news was going crazy, and aides had nightmares of Cheney speaking in split screen with smoldering rubble. According to a person familiar with the incident, Cheney raised his right eyebrow, gave a quarter grin and shook off the advice. "The guy cannot be unnerved," the person said. A former Administration official put it this way: "If the VP isn't proven right until after he has kicked off, he's fine with that. The idea of being proved right before...