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...President who best summoned this brand of patriotism was Ronald Reagan. After the humiliation of Vietnam, stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan--the nation's oldest President--served as a living link to a stronger, prouder, earlier America. "I would like to be President because I would like to see this country become once again a country where a little 6-year-old girl can grow up knowing the same freedom that I knew when I was 6 years old, growing up in America," he once declared. As a matter of historical fact, that statement was downright bizarre. When...
...address HPV concerns. Gardasil protects against four strains of the HPV virus, two of which cause 70% of cervical cancer cases. The other two strains can cause other HPV manifestations like genital warts. A study last year published in the New England Journal of Medicine has also found a link between the virus and throat cancer, prompting speculation that the vaccine might be useful in treating HPV spread by oral...
...Best Book of a Musical No good options here. For all four nominees (the same four as above), the book was actually the weak link. I opted for Stew's autobiographical Passing Strange, but only by process of elimination...
There's evidence to suggest that she's right. One study of preschoolers, for instance, found a link between overeating and overweight children--and an even stronger link between overeating and kids whose parents regularly control their portions. And so, Satter says, we need to start making the process of eating less fraught by letting kids decide whether they are hungry and how much to eat of the foods we provide at the times and in the places we provide...
...McCain camp has responded to Obama's digs by trying to link Obama to Bush (because both are supposedly big spenders) and to Jimmy Carter (because both are supposedly big taxers). It's hard to see either parallel sticking, though--the first is too ridiculous, and the second is too dated. If this election becomes a referendum on the economy and Bush's handling of it, Obama wins and McCain loses. It's as simple as that...