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...Actually, the likelihood is an unpredictable scatter of good and bad results. But Carter is speaking about the intensity of what is about to occur. The rules that have been violated are those that govern the etiquette of complex international relations - the rules of diplomacy. The notion, for example, that the President of the U.S. would challenge our oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain...
...invading a dysfunctional part of the world to fix it, and the shock of war will finally jolt the Arab world into better health. It's an audacious idea but not a working plan. Neither Bush nor any Administration official has detailed how the wave of democratization would occur...
While we can be pretty sure that medical errors occur with some frequency--nearly 100,000 deaths a year are caused by such errors, one survey reported--it is less clear that doctors or hospitals will voluntarily own up to their mistakes. In a study published in 1991, 76% of the doctors surveyed said they had not fully disclosed a serious error to one of their patients. And a separate survey conducted last year found that only 30% of patients affected by a medical error had been informed of the problem by the health-care professional responsible for the mistake...
Although Hare has always loved dogs, it didn’t initially occur to him to study them scientifically. Hare’s “first love,” as he puts it, was chimpanzees. In high school, he volunteered at a zoo in Atlanta. “I was such a dork!” he says of his passion for studying chimp behavior. Hare’s undergraduate studies at Emory University, home of a noted primate center, cemented his interest in chimp cognition and behavior...
MILLER: We've been together 10 years. We met at college, at Brown. When we first met, we were talking about music and classes and where we were from, and it didn't really occur to us to talk about marriage. We graduated and started living together. What we realized after a while is that while marriage wasn't something that either of us was thinking about, it was something that was a big deal to other people...