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...sensationalist news stories about gangsters. Although the American psyche has probably always been just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence in Vietnam and the caskets coming home, the response was both shock and anger; it was these feelings that culminated in the peace movement that has been so emblemized in American history. What has changed since then?Everything. 24/7 news stations, the internet, satellite communications, digital photography...
...alone. The study showed that rapid rises in weight-to-length ratio increased the risk of later obesity from 20 to 40 percent, a risk Taveras called “not insignificant.” Clifford W. Lo, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School, said he saw “several ramifications” of the study’s results. “Something is happening within the first year or two of life that has long-term effects,” said Lo, who is also an assistant professor of nutrition at the School...
Zardari's helplessness reflected one reality - the Pakistani army holds the real power in the country - but it also fed the parallel reality of an infantile political class, constantly squabbling, incapable of acting effectively even in a dire crisis. Holbrooke and Mullen saw it firsthand when a shouting match broke out before dinner at the U.S. embassy between a prominent Zardari aide and a leading member of the lawyers' group that had successfully forced the reinstatement of Pakistan's Chief Justice. "They're both moderate, secular leaders," one of those present commented later. "They should be focused on the desperate...
...tried to forge a middle way between revolution and democracy by calling on the ANC to embrace a "democratic revolution" in government. The approach proved schizophrenic. Mbeki the democrat adopted liberal economics, oversaw impressive growth and won plaudits as a consensus-building peace negotiator across Africa. Mbeki the revolutionary saw his country's AIDS epidemic as a Western conspiracy, a stance which cut treatment and cost 330,000 South African lives between 2000 and 2005, according to a November report by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...past week saw at least six attacks, culminating with the seizure of an American-flagged cargo ship with a crew of 20. Though the crew quickly regained control of the ship, the pirates are still holding the captain, Richard Phillips, hostage. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...