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...going on as President Jiang undertakes the delicate task of engineering his succession. So the Chinese response to the crisis is being shaped by a lot of internal political dynamics. And there's a big hangover from the Belgrade bombing. All those factors are making it difficult to react - and China doesn't react quickly as a rule. Also they don't do very well in public. The Americans are sympathetic to these problems. Both sides realize that public diplomacy is not the most effective way of dealing with this problem...
...brain's attention and serve as a repository for incipient fears. "Temperament also seems to be critical," says Craske. "Two people can go through the exact same traumatic event, but the high-strung, emotionally sensitive person is more vulnerable to the fear." Even secondhand fears--watching Mom or Dad react with exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were merely told to expect an electric...
...differences between the two countries, however, are in America's favor: U.S. banks are in better shape; businesses are quicker to react; and workers are more mobile. Even if the U.S. follows Japan into recession, that doesn't mean Americans will experience a decade of descent. At least not if they learn from Japan's mistakes...
...Tiffany [Whitton] and Chelsea [Thoke] have helped me a lot," she said. "I've watched them to see how they react in certain situations and have really learned from them...
...years as Clinton's chief of staff. "Someone has to carry the load, especially when there's a crisis." Bush has enjoyed a smooth stroll through his first six weeks on the job, but some say his need for order and structure makes him appear unsteady and slow to react when confronted with an off-the-script event. When he fumbled his remarks about North Korea last week--suggesting the country had not kept its international agreements, contradicting advisers who said it had--critics said he may have delegated too much, leaving himself unprepared...