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...notes Christakis. Compare those figures with the 100 people who are killed yearly by lightning, the 45,000 who die in car crashes and the 1,300 who are killed in gun accidents. As a society, Christakis says, our priorities have become seriously skewed, and it's largely a result of fear. "My interest is in understanding [the reaction to nut allergies] as a spread of anxiety," he says...
...last budget. America’s trade has increased by 60 percent under President Bush, following a more than quadrupling of the number of free trade agreements in place since Bush took office. The president has done an admirable job under trying worldwide economic circumstances, and as a result America’s 2008 Gross Domestic Product growth was higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Japan, as well as the average for advanced economies, according to International Monetary Fund projections. President Bush has also made an unprecedented effort to reach beyond our borders...
...Jantzen and Caputo and a technical fall from Peppelman (13-6) as Minnesota dominated the top two weights to seal a win.MIDLAND CHAMPIONSHIPSCaputo, Jantzen, Peppelman, and Desena traveled to Northwestern’s Ryan-Welch Arena, taking on the nation’s best grapplers.Caputo enjoyed the best result for Harvard and a personal-best fourth place at Midlands, but the small squad struggled to make an overall impact, settling for 21st in the 47-team field.“[The Championships] could have gone better,” Caputo said. “Overall, we?...
...issue, but also because they want him to prioritize Iran. Diplomatic moves already afoot by the U.S. and Europeans - and the mounting pressure on Arab regimes, including that of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, to intervene even if their unstated preference is to see Hamas hobbled - might result in Operation Cast Lead ending a lot sooner than...
...Although the air war has so far claimed more than 400 Palestinian victims, and continues to inflict damage on Hamas - as well as, inevitably, on the civilians around it - Israelis believe the attacks have not yet delivered the deterrent blow they desired. Nor did that change as a result of Sunday's strike that killed top Hamas political-military figure Nizar Rayan. Although the assault on one of the movement's most senior figures has been interpreted by Hamas as an intentional body blow - and may yet prompt a furious retaliation - Israeli officials did not characterize it as a "targeted...