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...then there's the strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld...
...also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline fluids. The opportunity to prove oral rehydration's worth came in the form of a disaster. When Bangladesh's war for independence from Pakistan broke out in 1971, 9 million refugees poured into India, bringing cholera with them. Dilip Mahalanabis, an Indian doctor who had participated in the oral rehydration trials at the Johns Hopkins Center...
...cooperation is still valid, says James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, "but these days, Airbus just confirms Anglo-Saxon prejudices that governments waste large amounts of taxpayers' money even when they have a good idea." Untangling Airbus' wiring will prove plenty tough, but untangling its management snarls may be the hardest task...
...Physics winners George Smoot of U.C.-Berkeley and John Mather of NASA have long feuded over discoveries they made while both were at NASA trying to prove the Big Bang theory. Mather was infuriated when Smoot, in 1992, announced some results of their collaborative research in what Mather alleged was a grab for solo glory. But after they won the prize last week, the pair seemed buddy-buddy again. Nothing brings people together like shiny gold medals and a check for $1.4 million...
...gained a deeper experience and understanding into this complex issue," he says. "Having known all the history and background and having known people in both the South and the North, I'm convinced I can do much better than any other person." He may soon get the chance to prove...