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...Before his election Obama promised to visit a Muslim country within his first few months as president - and he has chosen one that had fraught relations with his predecessor in the White House. In 2003, Ankara broke with its traditional ally by refusing U.S. troops passage through Turkish territory to neighboring Iraq, an act of defiance from which ties never fully recovered. Public support for the U.S. in Turkey fell to historic lows as the war progressed. Washington was further aggravated by the Turkish government's pursuit of greater engagement with the Islamic world, including an energy deal with Iran...
...Spring and early summer has always been a fraught time in Northern Ireland. Republicans hold events to commemorate the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 - an anti-British rebellion in Dublin that was violently suppressed by British troops - while the Orange Order holds marches across the province to mark the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic James II in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the "marching season" has passed off relatively peacefully in recent years, it's feared the actions of an emboldened dissident movement could once again ignite these historical rivalries...
...whose title the novel bears. But the Mighty Angel is a name that Jerzy attributes to his love as well—the elusive girl in the yellow dress. The question arises whether this angel, this manifold savior, is just as fragile and just as fraught as the alcoholics that worship it. While Jerzy seems to have escaped this cycle of rehabilitation and relapse by the novel’s end, the reader is left to wonder whether its only a matter of time before he regresses again. His fascination with this cycle, with its own sobering reality, perhaps...
...exists outside of any single discipline. The research into the effects of music on the body requires adeptness in a diversity of fields, and an incorporative application of that knowledge. This is strange new territory. Any forays into “musical pharmacology” are bound to be fraught with resistance and skepticism from doctors and patients alike. Though they draw upon the varied fields of neurobiology, endocrinology, psychology, sociology, and physiology, SANOSON hopes to synthesize these diverse disciplines into a single, clinically-proven treatment. The key, researchers believe, lies in synchronizing a patient’s regulatory processes...
...study from the Mayo Clinic, published on March 24 in the journal Anesthesiology, finds a link between exposure to anesthesia during surgery in infancy and learning disabilities later in life - the first such study to do so in humans - making the decision to operate even more fraught for both parents and doctors. (See TIME's Year in Medicine 2008, from...