Word: liebermanically
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...staff as governor and 2000 campaign manager. Another is used by those who may have a lofty title, but lack the access-and, as a result, often lack the ability to get things done. FEMA reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and some Senators, like Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, found it hard to believe Brown could not recall if he had spoken with Chertoff on that first night after he got news that New Orleans was flooding. But Brown said he regularly circumvented his boss, a career prosecutor and former federal judge, who was Bush's second...
While most of the findings about the effects of caffeine remain open to further testing, caffeine's boosting your brainpower has been proved beyond any reasonable doubt "As a research psychologist," says Harris Lieberman, who works in the Military Nutrition Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass., "I use the word intelligence as an inherent trait, something permanently part of your makeup." Caffeine can't change that, Lieberman says. But what it can do, he says, is heighten your mental performance. If you're well rested, it tends to improve rudimentary brain functions, like...
...kicks in, though, when you're tired. That's of obvious interest to the military, which counts on servicemen and -women to make life-and-death decisions even when they have been in the field without rest for days. "When you're sleep deprived and you take caffeine," says Lieberman, who has carried out extensive tests on Navy SEALS, among others, "pretty much anything you measure will improve: reaction time, vigilance, attention, logical reasoning?most of the complex functions you associate with intelligence. And most Americans are sleep deprived most of the time." Again, caffeine doesn't make you inherently...
...same time, Democratic opponents, led by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Dick Durbin of Illinois, held moderates like Mary Landrieu of Lousiana and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and the increasingly hawkish Hillary Clinton of New York. The numbers left the GOP and the President short by 8 votes in their attempt to override the filibuster. As the clock ticked down Thursday night, the GOP leadership launched a last-ditch effort to swing Senators, threatening to let the law's sunsetted provisions expire entirely. "Tomorrow's vote is going to be the only vote," warned Frist aide Bob Stevenson...
...organized basketball today--there are more than 472,000 high school and NCAA participants, up 21% over the past 15 years--and refining their ability, Parker represents a new wave of skilled female stars. "Candace will be the next player to change the sport," predicts Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. "In 10 to 15 years, there will be a lot of Candace Parkers. But right now there's only one, and she's going to set the bar high. Young girls will strive...