Word: fatalism
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...Democrats are dreaming for the first time that they can snatch control of the Senate, narrowly held by Republicans. Obama's first G.O.P. opponent, former Goldman Sachs partner Jack Ryan, had already been trailing by as much as 20 points in some polls when his campaign took a fatal blow last week: a judge unsealed four-year-old divorce records in which Ryan's exwife--actress Jeri Ryan of television's Boston Public--claimed that in 1998 he tried to talk her into having public sex with him in various clubs. Four days later, Ryan, who had denied the allegations...
...that's just the start. People in happy marriages also have less acute and chronic illness, better-functioning immune systems, fewer fatal accidents, less susceptibility to alcohol abuse, and lower rates of depression, schizophrenia and suicide. In stable relationships, partners help each other by encouraging good health habits, such as routine mammograms and colonoscopies, and discouraging bad habits like smoking...
...relatively mild dehydration and cramps to heat exhaustion (warning signs include fatigue, weakness, nausea and drenching sweats) to heatstroke (flushed and dry skin, headache, rapid pulse and a sudden loss of consciousness). Severe heatstroke can lead to a fever greater than 105F, delirium, seizures and coma; many cases are fatal...
...prayer makes you right. The risk, for anybody, is in conscripting God so that policy becomes inarguable. In his eulogy for his father last week, Ron Reagan Jr. noted that while President Ronald Reagan was a deeply religious man, he was also a humble one. "He never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians, wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage," he said. "After he was shot and nearly killed early in his presidency, he came to believe that God had spared him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that...
...Alec station's chiefs were so turf conscious about which agency had "the lead" in the hunt for bin Laden that they routinely left their FBI counterparts in the dark about what they were learning from overseas--a habit that turned out to be a fatal error. Sloppy surveillance permitted two of the hijackers to elude the CIA as early as January 2000, but then the agency repeatedly failed to inform the FBI or half a dozen other government officers who could have assisted in the hunt. Indeed, at the CIA, keister covering was in full swing long before...