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When President Bush makes public this week his plan for the creation of a Palestinian state, the exact shape his proposal takes will be crucial to more than just the future of the Middle East peace process. It will also reveal the outcome of another bitter struggle--the one between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Administration hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...
...Bush and his political guru Karl Rove (whom Bush alternately addresses as "Boy Genius" and "Turd Blossom") have already encountered a fair number of problems in California. Winning there won't be easy: the California Republican Party has been in bad shape for more than four years. Rove is hoping to resuscitate it by helping in the campaign against Democratic Governor Gray Davis, but he's had nothing but trouble so far. First, Rove decided the best way to beat Davis was for Bush to handpick the ideal nominee. Bush threw his weight behind Richard Riordan, the moderate former...
There is plenty to learn about how anxiety and fear shape the brain. One of the biggest mysteries is the relationship between anxiety and depression. Researchers know that adults who suffer from depression were often very anxious as children. (It's also true that many kids outgrow their anxiety disorders to become perfectly well-adjusted adults.) Is that just a coincidence, as many believe, or does anxiety somehow prime the brain to become depressed later in life? Brain scans show that the amygdala is very active in depressed patients, even when they are sleeping. Studies of twins suggest that many...
...considered an intellectual or ideological force, Dziwisz isn't looking to shape doctrinal issues, insiders say. Instead, the secretary has come to serve as a mediator among the powerful priests inside the Roman Curia. As John Paul's condition declines, the priests' individual powers seem to be expanding. "The Cardinals just bring him papers and say, 'Sign this,'" is how one Vatican insider describes the Pope's daily activity...
...Percentage of young Californians considered out of shape...