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...first job was to regain control of the streets, which were in the hands of criminal gangs and radical militias. With the help of U.S. General Keith Dayton, the Palestinians trained five brigades (2,500 troops) of a new national-security force - with two more in the pipeline - and began training local police. "We started with Nablus, the most lawless city," says Fayyad. "Our policy was zero tolerance. Anyone who committed a crime was an outlaw, regardless of party affiliation." It seems to have worked. Nell Derick Debevoise, an American woman who works with an excellent pre- and after-school...
Stroke victims who can no longer speak may now be able to regain their ability to communicate through singing, according to a recent Harvard Medical School study...
...Beard’s mistresses laments, to take action against global warming “would be to think about it all the time,” something that “daily life would not permit.” But when he is presented with the opportunity to regain his former professional glory as a champion of solar power and the global warming movement, Beard conveniently forgets these concerns and finds his faith in climate change...
...lending, will eventually go bad. The kicker is that most option ARMs undergo payment spikes after five years, which means the brunt of the impact has yet to be felt. That will change in late 2010, delivering another blow to the fragile housing market just as it begins to regain strength...
...Mass Mutiny" [Feb. 1]: Scott Brown's victory has pointed the way for Democrats to regain their lost momentum. After their shellacking in 2008, Republicans, rather than retreat from their principles, focused on solidifying their base. Democrats, disappointed by the tepid leadership and centrist policies of their party, were content to call it in and suffered a humiliating defeat. The clear lesson for the Democrats: work for the real change and progressive policies that will energize the base--or risk an election debacle in November...