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TIME: You write about why we get dizzy - the liquid in our inner ears sloshes around. Is that similar to when people get motion sickness? ??Bentley: Yes, it is. We're all hardwired to correlate a jolt in our balance with a jolt in our vision systems; that...
Such differing agendas help explain the unseemly bickering of the past couple weeks. Continental Europeans, with sounder banks and less fiscal room for maneuver, are rejecting U.S. calls to spend more; the U.S. and Britain, anxious not to kill off laissez-faire capitalism, are reluctant to cede to European demands...
The result is that, today, all it takes is 41 votes to bring legislation you don’t like to a halt, perhaps permanently. This is a maneuver particularly suited to the Republicans’ current strategic weakness and characteristic tactics: Oppose everything, constantly whip up the base, feed...
“Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy,” Jeff Buckley once declared. “It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.” While Kathy Nilsson refrains from such...
At the time, some observers, such as sociologist and ETA specialist Ignacio Sanchéz-Cuenca saw the vitriol as "limiting Zapatero's room to maneuver" in the peace talks. The author Chislett agrees. "To get a deal with terrorists, you have to be able to bend the rules a...