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...chances of recovering some function. "It's important that patients not allow their muscles to atrophy," says Young. "I usually tell people that we have nothing yet to give you, but if I were you I'd start an exercise program to keep my body in good shape so that when the therapies come, I'll be ready...
...party that Dole will stand before this week started to take shape more than three decades ago, at about the time he arrived in national politics. Dole was first elected to the House in 1960, the year Jack Kennedy regained the White House for Democrats, who already controlled Congress. The conventional wisdom foresaw a new era of liberalism and activist government. For once the conventional wisdom was right. But most of the 40 or so G.O.P. House freshmen were so right-leaning they were called the Young Fogeys. That was fine with Dole. During his eight years in the House...
Catholic, patrician and Ivy League, Buckley was not entirely like the movement he summoned into shape. The New Rightists drew their strength from the fast-growing Sunbelt states of the South and the West. Their hero was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon did not excite them. Forget for a moment his impeccable credentials as a cold warrior. He had spent eight years as Vice President to the pliant Dwight Eisenhower, a man the Old Right had never entirely forgiven for winning the 1952 G.O.P. nomination away from their longtime hero, Ohio Senator Robert Taft...
...that some 16 million years ago, the slapstick asteroid A slammed into planet B (Mars, the fourth rock from the sun), dislodging spud-size meteorite C, which spitballed through space and whammed into planet D (Earth). Betimes, the alien microspud wakes up in the Antarctic and assumes the shape of an outlandishly hot idea, E (LIFE ON MARS!!!!), which pinballs hectically through Earthling media, knocking vases off the mantelpiece, toppling assumptions, causing tabloid amazement and theological consternation...
...chief Massimo Calabresi. "Stronger ties between Serbia and Croatia are not likely to be good for the Bosnian Muslims." Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis apparently played matchmaker, but Calabresi notes each man stands to gain from mutual recognition and the establishment of ties. "Both nations are in bad economic shape, so Milosevic sees the possibilities of greater trade with Croatia. Mending fences with Croatia also goes a long way toward assuring international investors that Serbia is no longer a pariah state. Tudjman gains another feather in his cap as father of his country." Tudjman said afterward: "We agreed on normalization...