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...Heed Reality in Iraq Controversy over Iraq has dogged the Bush Administration since the war's onset [Dec. 12]. The dispute has provided capital for the Democrats, eroding the Administration's approval ratings and effectively killing its political agenda. But it's practically a sure thing that the opposition's strategy will backfire. The fact remains that Saddam Hussein was not a nice guy, and anything that led to his removal couldn't have been so bad. The big mistake was that the Administration did not have a plan for the war. The solution lies not in an immediate withdrawal...
...from the Bible, he should read up on the parts that specifically call homosexuality a sin instead of picking and choosing the parts that bolster his case. Katie Hepburn San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Heed Reality in Iraq Controversy over Iraq has dogged the Bush Administration since the war's onset [Dec. 12]. The dispute has provided capital for the Democrats, eroding the Administration's approval ratings and effectively killing its political agenda. But it's practically a sure thing that the opposition's strategy will backfire. The fact remains that Saddam Hussein was not a nice guy, and anything that...
...very first significant comics artist was Winsor McCay, who, just 100 years ago, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday- supplement Hieronymus Bosch--a glorious otherworld of dreamscapes as phantasmagoric as they were funny. "He created a vocabulary for artistic creation in comics," Carlin says of McCay, "showing how they could achieve extraordinary, avant-garde things without undermining their popular appeal...
There's still no cure for Parkinson's disease, of course, so anything that prevents or delays its onset would be a welcome development. Harvard researchers found that vigorous regular exercise early in adult life cut in half a man's risk of developing Parkinson's later on. Physical activity was also associated with a decline in Parkinson's in women, although the drop was not statistically significant. Still, there are plenty of other reasons--from helping the heart to improving one's mood--to get moving...
...shouldn't be thought of as an "it," says Gordon Parker, a professor in the school of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. But because the more severe form tends to run in families and involves physical symptoms such as sleep and appetite disturbance, and because its onset can't be explained as a reaction to a traumatic event such as a bereavement, it seems "there are some depressions that are quintessentially biological . . . very much chemically underpinned...