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...provide some hint of an answer sooner than next Spring. On December 17, All Russia is due to hold its party congress, where it is expected to name its presidential candidate for the March 2008 election. But whoever the party puts forward in the presidential race, the likelihood remains that his or her election effort will be run, like the party's parliamentary campaign, "For Putin...
...Given the Bush Administration's unhappy history of political battles over intelligence findings, the likelihood is that the latest finding will spur a fierce new round of bureaucratic infighting. Whether they support the new Iran finding or oppose it, both sides will likely invoke the fact that the prewar NIE that portrayed Iraq as a WMD threat was so egregiously wrong. Intelligence findings, after all, are judgments based on the analysis of available facts - it's not so much an inexact science as an inexact art. Still, for those in Washington pressing for a more aggressive Iran strategy...
Indeed, even if better equipment can help reduce the likelihood of head injuries, female concussion rates are unlikely to fall significantly until girls alter their playing styles. Olivia Kirby, a high school sophomore from Seattle, suffered her second concussion while playing soccer this fall. A goalkeeper, she promises to tone down her aggression. "Don't be the goalie who takes out another person just 'because,'" she says. "Be the goalie who takes out the person strategically." In other words, use your head. Or else you might damage it for good...
...equivalent of eating nine raw carrots—or placebos. The subjects were then tested for general cognition, verbal memory, and category fluency. “This study, based on a well conducted, long term randomized trial, provides proof of principle that we can influence the likelihood of cognitive decline through long-term life style changes,” said HSPH Professor Meir Stampfer...
...hawks are clearly pinning their hopes on a belief that President Bush will not be willing to leave office without resolving the Iran nuclear issue. But more pragmatic elements in Europe and the Middle East may be counting on the likelihood that the next U.S. President will be more willing than Bush to hold direct, unconditional talks with Iran in search of a diplomatic solution, as the Europeans have long urged. And later that year, President Ahmadinejad faces a tough reelection battle of his own. All of which means that few will be pushing for a final confrontation over Iran...