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Chapped, dry hands and rough, patchy elbows are two signs that you're not as young as you used to be. But most of us don't think much about how aging--not to mention the desiccating effects of wintry winds and overheating--also dries out the thin film of tears that bathes and protects our eyes. For 10 million Americans, the problem is bad enough that they suffer from something called dry-eye syndrome. Their eyes become dry and itchy or, at the other extreme, produce excessive quantities of tears. Their vision may get blurry, or they may find...
...speech has undertones that imply his administration is planning on taking its heavy-handed international approach to even more hostile places in the world than Iraq—North Korea and Iran, of course, come to mind. After many months of unceasing conflict with insurgents in Iraq, not to mention Afghanistan, liberals are understandably skeptical about the efficacy and cost of such adventures. Those further left of the liberal establishment see even more sinister things at work in Bush’s speech, believing that this grand vision of global democracy is merely cover for the expansion of unregulated global...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...
Sachs neglected to mention that one reason more deaths occur in poorer nations is their extreme overpopulation. Moreover, governments disburse their money as they see fit. If those poor nations, many of which have extensive internal political corruption, choose to pay for things other than more hospitals, better roads and coastal barriers, they have no one to blame but themselves when disaster strikes. Poor nations of the world, take heed: Spend your money wisely, and hold your politicians accountable...
...spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew, could reopen debate about his ideas. Many Chinese had hoped that their current leader, President Hu Jintao, would someday invoke Zhao and nudge China toward an opening...