Word: mainstreams
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...headquarters. Why do people risk so much to continue talking to you? They had my mug shot up at the security desk as a terrorism threat. It's kind of amusing, but at the same time kind of chilling. People talk because the department is so closed, and the mainstream media is so cowed that information they want public is not getting out. When people in the police department talk to a reporter, it's usually not for some lofty motive - it's usually because of a personal grudge. But the information they give to me is on the money...
...require them to share some territory - in Jerusalem, for instance - to which both can make rightful claims. Insisting on physical separation as a prerequisite for a peace deal is a safe way to ensure that one is never struck. Lieberman's views may be finding acceptance in the Israeli mainstream. But they are not the way to forge a lasting peace in the Middle East...
Youn finds that "fears that Judge Sotomayor is an 'activist' or 'outlier' or 'out of the mainstream' have no basis in her record of constitutional cases." Instead, Youn argues, her judicial profile is "very much in line with her colleagues." The study gives a brief overview of the term "judicial activism" and explains how it has been saddled with negative connotations since Marbury v. Madison established the court's power of judicial review in 1803. Specifics of the cases reviewed aren't available in the report, but the study nonetheless paints a good statistical portrait of what might be expected...
...paper published this week in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry offers a simple new hope for trichotillomania sufferers. In a small trial of 50 hair pullers, more than half of those who took an over-the-counter antioxidant called N-acetylcysteine, which is available in pill form at mainstream stores like GNC and Vitamin Shoppe, had improvement of symptoms after 12 weeks, compared with 16% of those taking a placebo. (See how to prevent illness...
...former vice-presidential candidate made it clear when the deal was announced that she was trying to tell her own story rather than have it told by others. She explained to the Associated Press, "There's been so much written about and spoken about in the mainstream media and in the anonymous blogosphere world that this will be a wonderful, refreshing chance for me to get to tell my story that a lot of people have asked about, unfiltered." It's become de rigueur for presidential candidates to produce such tomes. There's a high bar, though; Barack Obama...