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Young doctors spend a lot of time solving medical mysteries, and one of the more memorable ones I encountered occurred in the 1990s, when I was a resident in neurosurgery at the University of Michigan. A woman in her mid-60s came to our clinic complaining of severe back pain that wrapped around to her chest. That sounded a lot like a herniated disk, and her primary-care physician wanted me to examine her to determine if surgery was called...
...from an "election" marked by murder, torture and intimidation - nobody rebuked him or asked him to step down. That is because all the other leaders are doing similar things. In Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Chad, Djibouti and elsewhere in Africa, leaders have a great deal in common with Mugabe. Some spend millions on themselves while their people remain vulnerable to starvation, then beg for foreign aid. Our forebears set our nations free from the colonial powers. These days Africans need liberating from our own leaders. Mahad Dirieh, Djibouti...
Many of these problems cannot be solved by the West, however many billions we spend or thousands of troops we deploy. Our money and expertise, which have helped make the central bank and the Afghan National Army professional and competent, cannot prevent the widespread corruption in the police and legal system. A central bank is relatively small, dealing with narrow issues such as currency and interest rates on which international economists can offer practical, technical advice. An army is able to develop its esprit de corps and drills in barracks, isolated from the broader society. But policemen and judges...
...food industry has long been under fire for advertising directly to children. They're an irresistibly lucrative target - children under 12 are estimated to spend more than $25 billion a year themselves, and may influence another $200 billion that is spent. But there's no doubt that some of that spending contributes directly to childhood obesity - 32% of American youngsters are overweight, and 50% of the calories kids under 18 eat come from fat or added sugars. Public-interest groups and Congress have urged companies to stop targeting ads to children, and many, including McDonald's, General Mills and Kraft...
...Visits by individual VIPs and congressional delegations are carefully stage-managed, and follow a predictable course. A visitor gets to spend some time in one or more U.S. military bases, is briefed by General David Petraeus and his senior commanders, then takes a helicopter ride to the Green Zone for a meal with Ambassador Ryan Crocker and a briefing by his top diplomats. Then, another chopper ride to the airport, and a flight home...