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...hard enough to organize a pre-emptive war with midterm elections looming and the stock market swooning and close allies refusing to participate. So the first-strike hard-liners in the Bush Administration must have found it hard to swallow when Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking on a video conference call with the vacationing President in Texas last month, argued for the need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options...
...Baghdad will seek to continue preventing inspections of Saddam's palaces and other politically sensitive sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost to persuade Saddam that he has no alternative but to swallow whatever the UN demands. The Iraqi leader's own instinct will to use any discord between the U.S. and its allies to push back and play for time. And President Bush will be waiting - and not necessarily patiently - for Saddam to make...
...content proliferates, those drawbacks may go away. But there are a couple of other factors impeding the spread of phone-PDA hybrids. The xda, which was recently launched in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, costs more than $750?only corporations and true road warriors will be able to swallow that bill. Then there's the size factor. Asians have grown to love their tiny cell phones. The xda can slip into a coat pocket, but it's still a handful at about 200 grams...
...twins asked for guns, Sourani took them to a toy shop. "I don't want a toy," said Basel, 7. "I want a real gun." "What for?" Sourani asked. "To protect us," the boy answered. "I'll protect you. Don't worry," the father said. The kids did not swallow it. "You want us to die like Mohammed al-Durra?" Basel replied...
...thing seems pretty clear: any future medical treatment of obesity will probably require a combination of drugs. Imagine for a moment, says Dr. Michael Schwartz, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, that scientists figure out a way to turn PYY into an easy-to-swallow pill, that the pill turns out to work for a wide range of people and that those who take it begin losing weight and shed, say, 5% to 8% of their body weight. At that point, some of the other hormones that affect long-term weight control, such as leptin and insulin...