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Both Rabin and Secretary of State Warren Christopher felt certain Hizballah was, as the Secretary put it, "at the bottom of some of these" bombings of Israeli and Jewish targets. "Groups like Hizballah that wreak havoc and bloodshed," he said, "and Hizballah's sponsor, Iran," must not be allowed to prevail. If their goal is to halt the moves toward peace, they probably will not succeed. Car bombings and terrorist atrocities now seem irrelevant to a Middle East so close to an overall settlement...
Most experts say ADHD is a lifelong condition but by late adolescence many people can compensate for their impulsiveness and disorganization. They may channel hyperactivity into sports. In other cases, the symptoms still wreak havoc, says UCLA psychiatrist Walid Shekim. "Patients cannot settle on a career. They cannot keep a job. They procrastinate a lot. They are the kind of people who would tell their boss to take this job and shove it before they've found another...
Sommers is certainly a qualified administrator and instructor. But after all the havoc wreaked by Marius, students deserved a real search for the best possible successor...
Humans may have arrived in North America almost a millennium earlier than previously believed. A hacked up mastodon tusk, 12,200 years old, showed evidence that humans had cut on its tusk -- in what is now Florida. That geographic location also plays havoc with the notion that humans first arrived in the western part of the continent; instead, they may have begun their spread from Florida and other places east...
...some variations in premiums according to age. The New York model has also persuaded analysts that community rating without universal coverage is a recipe for disaster. They can foresee a mass exodus by young people, which in turn will nudge up prices for older Americans -- and lead to more havoc...