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...billion to buy a British firm, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O), which controls terminal operations under five U.S. port authorities, including those in New York City, Baltimore and Miami. Citing security issues and a lack of information from the Bush Administration, usually free-trade Republicans like Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, have all but vowed to show up at the docks to stop the deal. "A lot of Republicans feel they were hung out to dry," says King. The tussle has even offered the prospect of former President Bill Clinton, a Dubai adviser, squaring...
...long puzzled even the sharpest minds why some people succumb to depression while others march on no matter what life hurls at them. An example of the latter, Peter Hamer is a retired school principal who, over the years, has endured a divorce, the deaths of both parents and a job that often frayed his nerves; he's now supporting his wife through a battle with breast cancer. To many, those hardships would sound like the normal rough and tumble of life. But they'd be enough to tip others into a state that would pass these days for clinical...
...event, it's debatable whether people should be encouraged to determine their genetic susceptibility to depression. "One of the difficulties we face whenever we talk about a gene," says the study's geneticist, Peter Schofield, "is that everybody wants to attribute to that gene absolute causality. In this case it merely sits in the background as a predisposer." For now, the authors suspect, testing is premature...
...Treasurer Peter Costello knows the issue isn't just on the minds of parents. Last week, on the Liberal-led government's 10th anniversary, and in the run-up to the May Budget, he raised many families' pulses by promising to make Australia "the most female-friendly environment in the world," and hinted at increased spending on child care and more flexible work practices. If he delivers, there'll be ovations from families whose frustrated calls for fresh approaches to the issue - such as making fees tax deductible and giving tax breaks to employers who help provide care - are rapidly...
...mile run on Saturday morning, you’re pretty much done for the rest of the day,” said McNamara. “If you look at a map of Boston, there are all these distant places,” said participant Peter A. Lee ’07. “And you just run to them.” Members of the HCMC will run in the 110th Boston Marathon on April...