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...have anything else to grow.' MUHAMMAD AYUD, Afghan sharecropper, on growing cannabis after a government campaign wiped out his opium poppies...
...this year, from 3.5 million six years ago, says John Olaisen, Oslo-based energy analyst at Carnegie, a Nordic investment bank. For Helge Lund, 44, formerly CEO of Statoil and now chief of the combined company, the message couldn't be clearer: "If we're going to grow the company," he says at StatoilHydro's office in Oslo, "we have to grow outside Norway...
...brain growth. Others worry about intervening with children before their gender identity is fully formed. Kenneth Zucker, a child psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, notes that his studies indicate that comparatively few gender-variant children--about 12% of girls and 20% of boys--grow into transgender adults. "Gender development is a multifactorial process that evolves," he says. Nevertheless, Dr. Norman Spack, who spearheaded the Boston clinic and has assessed 50 children under age 21, says, "I've not had one change their mind...
...them simultaneously makes you dizzy. Red-letter days are our measuring sticks, the fixed points from one year to the next by which we can tell how much we've changed. They let us gauge the function or dysfunction of the clan, see how our hopes ferment, our kids grow and ripen. Little sister wears big sister's Easter dress from two years ago, and you suspect she's going to end up taller. The cub scouts in the annual Memorial Day parade are eagles now. So in the spirit of holiday acceleration, let's make some early New Year...
...resort to Bush-bashing was Clinton's safety net in the Oct. 30 debate, the place she could go to deflect her opponents' attacks. But those attacks are likely to grow more intense as the campaign winds toward its Jan. 3 climax in the Iowa caucuses - and the questions of who Clinton is, what she really believes and whether the Democratic Party really wants to return to the pragmatic "balance" of Clintonism will be front and center. This is still a close campaign, at least in Iowa, where the traditionally undependable polls have Clinton with a lead over Obama...