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...Bush is reelected, the war in Iraq will continue, which means more instability for the Middle East,” said McEachern, who has watched all of the hour-and-a-half long presidential debates...
...always have the time, nor do we learn to develop the patience, to dissect arguments, to grapple with difficult texts or theoretical problems we encounter. Sections face the absurd task of making 15 or more people reflect on 100 pages of dense writings in under an hour. No wonder they are often a farce, and, in a popular definition, more the simulation of a discussion than an actual one. Students express unrelated but intelligent-sounding thoughts, and are then released to worry about their next assignment...
...CANDIDATES LOWER THEIR voices, become more thoughtful and almost reasonable when fielding questions about social issues? It happened in the vice-presidential debate when gay marriage was raised, and it may well have saved President Bush from blowing a gasket in the second presidential debate. His last half hour, when stem-cell research and abortion were discussed, was his best. He stopped huffing about, slipped into Man of God mode. He even accused Kerry of being a flip-flopper in a more thoughtful...
Lindquist, an art-school grad who has delivered pizza, has worked as a crew member on a blimp and is a photographer, has been making about $10 an hour, six days a week, doing this kind of work for ACT since January. Democratic veterans like former state party chairman Paul Tipps say ACT's operation is more focused and better coordinated than any they have ever seen in politics. But others are worried whether outside operators who are being sent into urban neighborhoods will really connect with and galvanize a notoriously recalcitrant group of voters. Or even keep track...
...makes it possible to design a patient's prosthesis in advance and a plastic surgical guide that fits over the gums and enables the surgeon to place the implants precisely without splaying open the gums, thus reducing healing time and the risk of infection. The surgery takes only an hour under local anesthesia. "This is revolutionary," says Abraham Ingber of Bethesda, Md., one of 20 U.S. prosthedontists working with the system. The company plans to launch Procera nationwide in the first quarter...