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...part, Summers joked that his experience as Treasury secretary and World Bank chief economist “was just the most partial preparation for attempting to negotiate with Skip Gates...
...It’s all about good music,” says Hersh, who emphasizes that music can either make or break a party. He’s partial to 1990s themed parties because of the tunes...
...have made it safer than it once was, but radiotherapy still puts healthy tissue at risk. Now a study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that targeted radio-therapy can work just as well as whole-breast therapy in preventing cancer recurrences. The approach, called partial breast irradiation, treats only areas nearest to the tumor, minimizing exposure of healthy tissues to X rays. It can also mean a shorter treatment and recovery period. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...That victory in Afghanistan has been partial, at best. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still very much alive in Afghanistan, and are right now in the midst of what appears to be a spectacular comeback. Over the past week, more than 100 Afghanis have been killed in clashes between large Taliban formations and government forces. The authority of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai doesn't extend much beyond the capital; the countryside is in the hands of warlords, opium farmers and jihadis. Some 10,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan to hunt al-Qaeda and its allies, and some...
Whatever kind of Republican Schwarzenegger may be, it's probably not the kind to give much comfort to a cultural conservative like Pat Robertson. The actor has said he's pro-choice, though how he feels about things like parental notification and partial-birth abortion is unknown. He's loud and clear about his support for gay rights, including adoption rights. He once told Cosmopolitan magazine, "I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual--that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy...