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...anything other than a hard-liner. He climbed the ranks of the ruling party much more quickly than most; more than a decade ago, he began to join Kim on visits to vital military units, where he established close ties to senior commanders. Soon, Kim was sending him on key trips abroad...
...musical pharmacology” are bound to be fraught with resistance and skepticism from doctors and patients alike. Though they draw upon the varied fields of neurobiology, endocrinology, psychology, sociology, and physiology, SANOSON hopes to synthesize these diverse disciplines into a single, clinically-proven treatment. The key, researchers believe, lies in synchronizing a patient’s regulatory processes to the prescribed music. SANOSON is one of the first companies to demonstrate the effectiveness of such synchronization in a clinical setting. As noted in a recent New York Times article, when these processes and structures were properly paralleled in patients...
...key element in President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy is getting Pakistan to fight the Taliban on its side of the border. But despite the Administration's demanding a more concerted effort against militants on Pakistani soil as a condition for further aid to Pakistan's military - and warnings by Centcom commander General David Petraeus and others that the Taliban threatens to destroy Pakistan as a state - many in Washington and beyond are skeptical that Pakistan will cooperate...
...Angela Merkel, who with Sarkozy had insisted on banishing any Anglo-Saxon laxity from financial regulation, also expressed satisfaction at the conclusion of the summit, which produced not only a six-point communiqué but also two detailed annexes on how a tighter regulatory regime would work. But the key to success, Merkel added at her closing press conference, would be how those measures are implemented. "That's why I'm glad we've agreed to another G-20 meeting, to check our progress," she said. A date and venue for the next meeting have not yet been...
...what are the key points agreed on, and how will they play out? The leaders neatly skirted the biggest point of contention in the run-up to the summit: whether to boost national economic-stimulus packages. Instead, the G-20 focused on two other significant areas: the funds available to international institutions to help poor or struggling economies to withstand the crisis, and tougher global regulation of financial markets. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...