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What happened in Istanbul seems to reflect this new face of terrorism. Turkish officials think the double car bombings were the work of homegrown extremists, perhaps inspired and possibly trained by al-Qaeda experts. The Turkish group that first claimed responsibility for both sets of attacks, the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front (IBDA-C), is widely believed to be incapable of mounting such a complicated operation entirely on its own. But it seems to have provided the willing bodies--and the cars. The vehicles used in the Saturday and Thursday bombings were apparently bought by the same men. Together with...
THEORY NO. 3 Bad sampling. The networks contend the drop is so dramatic that there must be problems with Nielsen's methodology. NBC research guru Alan Wurtzel has proposed a controversial explanation: the addition of more young Hispanic men to the sample this year (to reflect the population better) had the unintended effect of skewing the results, since Hispanic men, he claims, are less likely to push the buttons on their Nielsen meters. Nielsen stands by its numbers but is reviewing its methodology and expects to issue a report as early as this week. By that time, maybe...
...also maintains that the postering campaign does not reflect a shift to the center—perhaps its only point of agreement with NARAL. There was no concern within HRL that the campaign represented any endorsement of the right to choose whether to have an abortion, according to Tapia. Schultz says, “The shift in the rhetoric comes from the recognition that more can be achieved in the short term if women stop making that decision, independent of the possibility of that option being taken away...I think if someone were really playing or teasing with the language...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at yesterday’s full Faculty meeting to change the name of the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies to reflect the field’s increasing common ground with gender and sexuality studies...
...clear that depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders are diseases of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, mental disorders have their roots in the interaction of genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Just like these other medical disorders, the symptoms reflect abnormal physiology—in the case of mental disorders, abnormal physiology of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, which we would treat with both medical and behavioral interventions (drugs, diet and exercise), we treat depression, anxiety disorders and the like with medications and cognitive or behavioral interventions?...