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...carry around an existential angst, as if a dirty, gray, west-of-Scotland sky was permanently moored above his unkempt locks. He does not make people feel comfortable. He does not have - as, even after Iraq, Tony Blair still does - the capacity to convince the solid, middle-class folk of southern England that he is one of them. He is, finally, more policy wonk than politician. Time after time, he and Blair have had rifts over policy or presentation or - if you believe what you read in the papers - over Blair's promises of who would do what job when...
...death toll from Sunday's tsunamis that roared across the Indian Ocean passed 70,000 overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...
Everyone knows that stress can make you age before your time--but everyone knows is folk wisdom, not science. What science has established so far is that people under chronic stress tend to have weak immune systems and run an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. But that doesn't necessarily prove that stressed-out people are actually aging prematurely, even if they look older than their years...
...important new study shows that folk wisdom and subjective judgment may, in this case, be right. Writing in last week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists reported that long-term, unrelenting stress on mothers can damage the DNA of their immune-system cells in a way that may speed up the aging process. "It's an immensely exciting result," says Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford University cell biologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the report...
Travel around the world without leaving your Cambridge backyard when you attend this DTME winter concert featuring folk and other music from Europe and beyond. Followed by a reception. Free and open to the public. 8 p.m. Dudley House...