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...voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary fence, an approach many Latinos saw as punitive and even racist." Brownstein goes...
...which the organ becomes streaked with fat. "I worry about the outcome of these children 10 to 20 years from now," says Dr. Miriam Vos, a pediatrician and liver expert at Emory University. "In adults, we know that 3% to 5% of those with fatty-liver disease will progress on to cirrhosis or to an advanced stage where you might need a liver transplant." While not all cases reach such a dangerous state, Vos notes that in about 23% of children with fatty-liver disease, excess fat can lead to inflammation and scar tissue in the organ--the first signs...
...also talked about poverty, health care and Darfur, among other concerns. "When he talked about trying to bring people together on poverty or abortion reduction," says one participant, "there were a lot of nods in the room, even from some traditional Evangelicals who are frustrated with the lack of progress...
...issues that he would like to choose as his legacy - less the war on terror, more the war on disease - it is because he has been mugged by reality. Nearly seven years after U.S. troops first set foot there, the reconstruction of Afghanistan is at best a work in progress. That of Iraq has hardly advanced beyond a blueprint - or, rather, many of them. In the Middle East, neither the democracy which the Bush team was supposed to promote, nor the Arab-Israeli peace such democracy was supposed to engender, is much in evidence. It's no wonder - most Europeans...
...last 40 years, our country has voted 10 times for President. Democrats won only three of those times, and the man who won two of those elections is with us today," Clinton said, gesturing to her right where Bill sat in a dark grey suit. "We made tremendous progress during the '90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world...