Word: idea
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...very idea of a drug so powerful and transformative inevitably had its naysayers. Critics complained Prozac and its siblings were prescribed too liberally and were still unproven. Some previously sound patients reported turning violent or fantasizing about killing themselves after starting the drug and used a "Prozac defense" in court. Others appeared on talk shows calling themselves "Prozac survivors." (Despite anecdotal evidence linking antidepressants to violent behavior, scientists have reached no conclusive answer as to whether the drugs are to blame...
...lose their client's business. But wrasses also work in pairs. In these situations, explains Redouan Bshary of the Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland - one of the authors of a new study in the journal Science, the fish face a dilemma: "Theoretically, the best idea would be to bite your client right away before your partner does, because if the client swims away, you get the benefits of the tasty bite, but the costs are shared." But the fish tend to behave themselves...
Both of these facts are crucial. The CIA clearly considered this guy a hot ticket, the path--finally--to the al-Qaeda leadership. The idea that so many CIA personnel would attend the meeting, and that it would be held on base, is attributable not only to al-Balawi's perceived importance but also to the CIA's bureaucratic caution: in the past, such a meeting would be held off base, with fewer handlers. But everyone wanted to evaluate this guy in the flesh. The fact that al-Balawi wasn't given even a rudimentary security screening speaks...
...proclaim that we had in fact solved the problem of information sharing," says Ted McNamara, who resigned in August 2009 as the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, a congressionally created office to oversee the effort. "I think I convinced them that it was not a good idea. A) no one was going to believe them, and b) there were too many problems that were cropping up all the time...
...Palestinian Authority and in his previous capacity, as Yasser Arafat's chief negotiator - declined the best offers of two of Netanyahu's more dovish predecessors, Ehud Barak in 2000 and Ehud Olmert in 2008. And with the median in Israeli politics having swung steadily to the right, the idea that Netanyahu might offer more than Barak and Olmert did is fanciful. It's not that Abbas is an obstinate man; he simply knows what it will take to sell any peace agreement to his skeptical public. Still, Abbas has staked his political career on negotiations, and that fact will probably...