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...severity of his mood had been reflected behind closed doors as well, and the message was impossible to miss. As he addressed the heads of his intelligence, law enforcement and foreign affairs agencies, for whom the notion of failure was not at all abstract, the President spoke directly about his "solemn responsibility" to protect the American people, according to a senior Administration official who attended the meeting. "I take that responsibility, and I take it very seriously," the President told his aides, making perfectly clear that there was no room for another series of errors. Shortly afterward, John Brennan, Obama...
Medicinal or tonic cuisine is a centuries-old tradition in China. It's based on the notion that all ingredients can be classified as yin (foods that slow the metabolism), yang (foods that increase it) or neutral. When combined in the right proportions, these ingredients can help attain the key to all health: balance...
...achieving a worldwide smash with La Dolce Vita, Fellini was besieged with questions about his next film. What would it be about? How will you top yourself, maestro? He had the bold brainstorm to make a movie about a man who can't make a movie. And since the notion was just slightly autobiographical, the movie would be made, in a way, by the man the movie is about. The premise contained its own absurdity - nobody makes a movie without a script, a theme, a setting - but 8-1/2 was a work of great bustle and brio, built around...
Perhaps because it seems intuitively true, the notion persists that running, especially when done long-term and over long distances, is bad for the joints. Indeed, it would be hard to think otherwise when with each foot strike, a runner's knee withstands a force equal to eight times his or her body weight - for a 150-lb. person, that's about 1,200 lb. of impact, step after step...
...course, in an impoverished nation where aid organizations provide food aid to some six million people, the Western notion of a gift-giving holiday does not translate very well, particularly after Kim Jong Il's regime effectively stripped most of the nation of any personal savings three weeks ago. Each year underground worshippers in North Korea receive an array of presents from the outside world, including foreign-made clothes and candy, smuggled in by defectors like Jeong...