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...This is a common mantra in India these days. The past 15 years have seen massive changes in the world's second most populous nation, but many of the improvements - a booming high-tech and services sector, a growing middle class, rising foreign investment - have been concentrated in the cities and not yet trickled down to the 700 million or so Indians who live in the countryside, most of whom are still poor subsistence farmers...
...honed in on the one guy I wanted to sound like. Then it was a process where [dialect coach] Tim Monich and I recorded him and tortured him (laughs) by making him say sentences in varying ways and different energies and different tempos. Those recordings became a kind of mantra I'd listen to over and over again...
During the 2000 campaign, George used to respond to the jabs from late-night comedians by saying, "Let them laugh at me. I am going to be their President." On the trail in 2006, as the doubters were calling the Democrats a permanent minority, my mother repeated her mantra: We have better candidates. When anyone used the tired phrase, "Where are the Democrats?", she explained that everything was going exactly as planned; she was like a submarine on a stealth mission to take back the House...
...worry about it! That could be the Republicans' mantra as they head into congressional elections on Tuesday following weeks of negative news stories, discouraging developments in Iraq and polls that suggest a possibly dire outcome for the party - likely the loss of control of the House, and perhaps of the Senate...
...After six months, resveratrol essentially prevented most of the negative effects of the high calorie diet in mice,” Rafael De Cabo from the National Institute on Aging, who was the other senior author, said in a Harvard Medical School press release. However, the mantra among researchers involved in the study yesterday was that it is too early to know whether the chemical will have the same effect on humans. Several of them said that exaggeration of the results could be misleading to patients. Nevertheless, Sirtris, a Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company founded by Sinclair...