Word: opinionizing
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...used to think that old age invited a regression to childhood, and, I suppose, the Depends sales chart powerfully continues to argue the accuracy of that opinion. But the members of the"?Active Adult" community centered around the Boynton Beach Club are of a different mind: Susan Seidelman's film shows them reverting to sex-obsessed adolescence. If, as the saying goes, Hollywood is high school with money, then retirement is, according to this movie, high school with Social Security checks and AARP cards...
...Israel's campaign against Hizballah in Lebanon, moreover, has inflamed Shi'ite public opinion against the Coalition. Sadr has warned that his movement will not stand by passively in the face of attacks on Lebanon, and the popularity of that sentiment among Shi'ites was highlighted by the fact that more moderate voices such as Prime Minister Maliki and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani echoed Sadr's harsh criticism of the U.S.-British opposition to an immediate cease-fire...
...Moving against the Shi'ite militias has always been a difficult proposition, but doing so at a point where Shi'ite public opinion is so openly hostile to the Coalition may be entirely implausible. Indeed, the key to disarming those militias is more likely to lie in a new political agreement with their party bosses, in conjunction with a wider national-unity power-sharing agreement capable of shrinking the base of the Sunni insurgency. But the mounting sectarian violence and the passions stoked by Lebanon make the prospects for such a deal right now more remote than ever...
...uselessness and based on scientifically dubious claims. The GAO sent in profiles for 14 mock customers - each with a unique lifestyle and physical profile - but derived from only two DNA sources. According to the GAO, the companies sent back a variety of reports. That suggested, in the GAO's opinion, that the advice had very little to do with genetic screening...
...Hizballah continues to fight, and the Israeli bombardment appears to have actually strengthened it politically. Instead of the Lebanese backlash against Hizballah anticipated by Israel, the opposite has occurred - a survey of opinion across all communities last week found that upward of 70% of Lebanese backed the movement's original decision to seize two Israeli soldiers, the action that provoked the Israeli campaign...