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...Counsel, sharpen your legal arguments. The Supreme Court returns for its new term this week, and it's expected to be a corker. This will be the court's first full term with Samuel Alito in Sandra Day O'Connor's old seat. And on the docket are a raft of high-profile cases on hot-button issues that should give the best indication yet of the decision-making dynamics and working style of the John Roberts era. Here's a look at what to expect...
...parental aiding and abetting? It's not just that poker in the home keeps kids off the unpredictable streets. Many parents are saying that their kids get real-life lessons from playing poker with one another. Keeping track of the odds and the cards can help sharpen math skills without the kids even knowing it. And perhaps more important for teenage boys, who studies show lag in the development of their emotional intelligence, poker provides personal interaction. The game's central task--reading faces and psyching out opponents--can boost their EQ in ways that many other typical teenage activities...
...Thus taken together with this commitment to dialogue, the Pope's lecture in Regensburg seems to be saying: Yes, we must indeed talk, but now is the time for hard questions-not hugs and handshakes. The upside to Benedict's approach is that a brilliant theologian-Pope may help sharpen the terms of the debate. The downside is that he risks not connecting with the masses-or worse, being misinterpreted and manipulated by both his own followers, and those of other faiths. As a worldwide preacher-and no longer just an ivory-tower intellectual or Vatican bureaucrat-Benedict must still...
...only use weapons in self-defense. "The problem for this force is it's going to be there with the consent of Hizballah, essentially," says Tim Williams of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. France's hesitancy could compel the U.N. to sharpen its approach, but there is scant room for maneuver. In the end, President Jacques Chirac may find it hard not to beef up France's U.N. contingent to uphold two of his long-cherished principles: multilateralism and an independent Lebanon...
...shutters and notebooks-to record the things we saw and the people we met. A different team, or a different month, would produce a very different collection of stories and images, but we hope that together our stories give a fair taste of life along the highway, and perhaps sharpen your desire to see it for yourselves...