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...cracks in Bush's armor are only of the hairline variety. A TIME/ CNN poll, conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, gave him a robust job-approval rate of 61%. But that is down 9 points since April. More troubling for the White House is a dive in confidence in Bush's ability to maintain prosperity. In February's survey, 60% of Americans described the economy as very good or fairly good. That figure dipped to 49% last week. In the earlier poll, respondents liked Bush's handling of the economy, 55% to 36%. The new figures show...
...hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim fat in elderly men, . making their bodies look up to 20 years younger. While there is no evidence that the treatment can enable people to live longer, it may one day help many of the aged appear and feel more robust...
Plainly, the American people need to be re-educated about their health. They need to know that they are the possessors of a remarkably robust mechanism. They need to be de-intimidated about disease. They need to understand the concept of a patient-physician partnership in which the best that medical science has to offer is combined with the magnificent resources of mind and body...
...George Orwell in 1984. Decades of attempts to control information in the Soviet Union backfired in the worst possible way: the government could not convince people they lived in a worker's paradise, but it could dampen the knowledge flow sufficiently to stifle the innovation necessary for a robust economy...
...However robust Broadway is, it usually looks anemic compared with London. Thanks in part to the government-subsidized Royal National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company, London generates three times as many productions as the Great White Way -- including many more new dramas and a much more varied range of revivals -- and commonly does them better. In recent years British superiority even extended to Broadway's signature genre, the musical. As a succession of London hits was packed up for export (and runaway profit), Broadway started to seem like just an early stop on the international touring circuit...