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...position she partly repudiated two years ago in another book, Regarding the Pain of Others. In fact, re-examining old positions was a lifelong habit. In 1968, after a trip to Hanoi, she produced an essay that struggled to approve the bland totalitarianism of the North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote...
...some people hopelessly addicted to cigarettes, while others can seemingly quit at will? It may be, suggests recent research, that in those unlucky individuals who appear to be "born to smoke," nicotine triggers a pattern of brain activity that makes kicking the habit practically impossible. This strong neurobiological reaction to nicotine appears to be associated with hostile personalities marked by anger, aggression and anxiety...
...year later, the Ashburn, Va., man exercises regularly, takes hypertension medication, and has dropped his fast-food burger habit in favor of low-fat grilled chicken. He has a lower-stress job with the county department of family services and is the father of a new baby boy. "I'd like to be around for him," he says. His new blood pressure should help. It's 120/80...
...subsidy for a sagging industry. America’s steel industry, once a jewel in the West’s industrial crown, is now more like a low-grade glass tchotchke. It cannot compete with more efficient foreign producers, and it never will unless it is weaned of its habit of relying on Uncle Sam for help whenever profits are down...
...Three years later, he co-founded Imparsial, a human-rights monitoring group. His highest profile campaign of late was lobbying against a bill for an expanded intelligence agency. Munir's fellow activists wonder if he was involved in some new project that ultimately proved too dangerous. As a habit, Munir kept things to himself, Rachland says, especially when the matter was dangerous. Even in death, Munir hasn't escaped his enemies. On Nov. 20, someone mailed his wife a decapitated chicken along with a note reading: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect the TNI [an acronym for the Indonesian armed forces...