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Driving while talking into a cell phone is sort of like driving with one eye closed - studies suggest that your brain processes only half of the visual information it receives. So obstacles like pedestrians and swerving cars may go unregistered by the distracted driver. The effect is the same whether you use a handset or a hands-free phone, but, interestingly, listening to the radio or engaging in conversation with a fellow passenger isn't nearly as distracting. "There is something about talking on the phone that trips up the brain," says David Strayer, the study's author...
...response of liberals to the devastation of Afghanistan. Though there, in the words of the heroic Malalai Joya, American support for “fundamentalist warlords… [makes] a mockery of democracy,” fewer troop casualties and lower overall costs allow Democrats to turn a blind eye...
...hence the only person capable of caucus math, went over all the procedures. The packed room immediately motioned to eliminate candidate speeches, voting over platforms, reading letters from the governor, and electing, among other party positions, members for the "the committee on committees." A tear welled in my eye as I realized how beautiful democracy can be. Then they passed around an envelope to stuff cash in for the party, and my eyes dried right...
...tour guides were, of course, actually government minders. They led us through each day's treadmill tour of statues and museums dedicated to Dear Leaders past and present. But their real job was to keep an eye on us and to control the images we would take back home. For example, when we passed any sort of poverty still life?women washing dishes in the gutter, an old dirty truck piled high with cabbage?they either ordered us to put our cameras down or deleted our pictures after the fact. The guides also had an unsettling habit of taking pictures...
...Ironically, American support for military dictators has been in the pursuit of U.S. interests not in Pakistan but in neighboring countries - to balance Soviet influence in India or to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the U.S. has rarely kept its eye on the ball. In the 1980s, Washington aided the regime of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, using Pakistan as a fulcrum to help pry the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. The policy succeeded - but when victory was assured, the U.S. lost interest, while thousands of young Muslim extremists who had been armed to combat...