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Hopper once said his goal as a painter was to achieve "the greatest possible austerity without the loss of emotion." He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy. And that this would be a part of the national mood we would recognize as soon as we saw it. Even if we didn't know quite what to make...
...maintain the troop surge. Meanwhile, those most responsible for launching the war continue to retreat from public life. Unlike soldiers, who can be barred from shedding their uniforms when their enlistment ends if they are bound for or in a war zone, civilians get no such "stop loss" orders...
...Bush clearly need help crafting Iraq policy. That's why the White House is hunting for a "war czar." So far, half a dozen former military officers have declined the offer. Most retired officers under 62 can be ordered back to active duty. But that's one "stop loss" order Bush is unlikely to issue...
...most surprising result is that of 1,400 people who took cognitive tests over several years, those who suffered from migraine with aura (that sensory distortion that sometimes precedes a migraine headache) had less memory loss as they aged than people without migraines did. True, the migraine sufferers generally had worse short- and long-term memory to begin with. "But this is not what we would have expected," says Amanda Kalaydjian, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the lead author on the study, published in the Apr. 24 issue of Neurology. It suggests there could...
...Father Marcelo is one of those people most responsible for halting the loss of followers," said Antonio Miguel Kater Filho, Director of the Brazilian Institute of Catholic Marketing. "He communicates something that might be difficult to communicate in other ways and he attracts people to him. He has charisma...