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...desperately needs a majority in the national assembly for the new president to realize many of his policy aims, including denuclearizing the peninsula. North Korea, analysts suspect, will want to put pressure on Lee's policy toward the North, to prevent him from getting off on a normal footing and thereby affect the vote at the polls...
...constitution or her husband's skills with a knife, it was almost certainly because Mrs. Nufer's pregnancy was extrauterine - a freakishly rare form of gestation in which the baby grows outside the womb, in this case probably in the abdomen. Had the baby been inside the uterus, as normal, Mrs. Nufer would have bled to death when the uterine wall was breached. While some contest the accuracy of the story, Mrs. Nufer's is generally accepted as the world's first completely successful cesarean, or C-section...
...easy to view terrorists as alien creatures who exist outside normal patterns of social interaction," he writes. But the sobering reality is that they don't. Sociopaths do not make capable terrorists - they seldom take orders and are rarely willing to sacrifice their lives for a larger goal. Many terrorists on the other hand, share qualities with ordinary, law-abiding people: they can be cooperative, goal-orientated and intelligent, even if emotionally wrought. Often, the start of their radicalization can be traced to a scrupulously moral outrage - not an irrational hatred or base prejudice...
...hard for Americans to feel like underdogs these days. We seem normal size in our own skins, but to the rest of the world, we've become a nation of supersizing, regime-changing, SUV-driving Goliaths. This may be why the NCAA men's basketball tournament?where little mutts like geographically confused Cleveland State and it-can't-possibly-have-a-team Oral Roberts run with purebreds Duke and UCLA?grows in meaning every year. It may also be the gambling, the guilt-free jalapeño-popper binges or the camaraderie born when three-quarters of the workforce enters...
...easy to view terrorists as alien creatures who exist outside normal patterns of social interaction," he writes. But the sobering reality is that they don't. Sociopaths do not make capable terrorists--they seldom take orders and are rarely willing to sacrifice their lives for a larger goal. Many terrorists, on the other hand, share qualities with ordinary, law-abiding people: they can be cooperative, goal-oriented and intelligent, even if emotionally wrought. Often the start of their radicalization can be traced to a scrupulous moral outrage--not an irrational hatred or base prejudice...