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Sophie Robert, a pharmacist (like all other SCORxE reps), was visiting a family-medicine clinic in southern Charleston recently. The topic of the day: antidepressants. A family doctor at the clinic, Dr. Annette Anderson, spent about 15 minutes with Robert - far longer than she ever devotes to the six or so drug reps who show up unbidden every day. Anderson says she likes the idea of unbiased information delivered right to her office. She does, though, have one small suggestion for the program in the future. "Pizza," she says. "The staff would really like that...
...million raised collectively by Polis and his opponents reflects contemporary campaign inflation, says Kareem Crayton, associate professor of law and politics and a congressional elections expert at the University of Southern California. "It's a sign that the cost of running federal campaigns is skyrocketing and not just at the presidential level...
Since the Soviet Union collapsed 17 years ago, Washington in particular has deluded itself into believing that it was somehow a real competitor to Russia in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union - that is, the eight states that make up the Caucasus and the former Soviet Central Asia. Washington acted as if these states were truly independent and sovereign, immune from the influence of the old metropolitan center, Moscow. Washington deliberately ignored how Russia had held on to its military bases in the southern tier, how the successor to the KGB stayed more plugged into intelligence from...
...Georgia out of NATO, stop the flow of arms into Chechnya and take control of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, the only important export route from the Caspian that does not pass through Russia. For it is oil that will give Russia all the more leverage over the southern tier...
...Iraq, General David Petraeus, has kept up a dialogue with key figures from Sadr's ranks, and U.S. officials in Baghdad have repeatedly spoken hopefully about Sadr's plans to transform his movement into more of a humanitarian organization. Even while Maliki's government clashed in the streets of southern Iraq and Baghdad with Sadr's fighters earlier this year, American officials did not call for Sadr's capture or destruction but were openly holding out hope that the cleric would rejoin the political process. In other words, the Americans want to deal with Sadr, even if the Maliki government...