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Some entertainers overestimate the value of their popularity. Stardom does not give the Dixie Chicks the right to spew their political views to people who are paying to hear them perform. If politics is more important to them than their music, they should run for office. Count me among the many who will never forget their indiscretion at a time when the country needed unity...
...hard to sort out the competing claims because there still has been no independent judgment of what went wrong and whether it is being put right. The committee the Ministry of Culture created to perform that task is made up of most of the bureaucrats responsible for the damage, including the architect who installed the climate system, the curator who oversaw the installation project and the lab director. How such a committee can arrive at unbiased answers is "a good question," admits Marc Gauthier, an expert on the Gallo-Roman era and the committee's chairman. But he says...
...Iraqi security and 4th Infantry Division troops swarm over the scene. Al-Zarqawi dies of his injuries soon after he is found. His identity is confirmed through scars, tattoos and fingerprints F-16 FIGHTING FALCON A compact, light and versatile fighter jet. It is highly maneuverable and able to perform in both air-to-air and air-to-surface combat THE TARGET The house, made of cinder blocks and reinforced concrete, was set back in a grove of date palms, about 1.25 miles (2 km) northeast of the village of Hibhib First bomb...
...Gilbert’s book “Stumbling on Happiness,” we are often happiest when we make a decision on the fly and it is irreversible. Hence, a student who decides on a whim to sign up for the Marines and becomes legally obligated to perform four years of service will most likely be happier than the student who spends months agonizing over job choices and finally chooses the one with the highest pay with an option to quit whenever he wants. In other words, future Nick, take the job that you think will be most...
...since they combine traits of different populations, hybrids may be more adaptable, Reich says.Hybridization, he adds, “might be fundamental to the creative process of evolution.”UNANSWERED PRAYERSA seminal 1988 article in the Southern Medical Journal found that heart patients performed better when Christian groups outside the hospital prayed for their well-being.But HMS researchers Jeffrey A. Dusek and Herbert Benson were unwilling to take those findings on faith.In a study published in the Apr. 4 issue of the American Heart Journal, Dusek and Benson found that patients who had undergone Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting surgery...