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...determined to both integrate Ukraine into Western structures like the European Union and inculcate Western values: "Democracy, individuals' rights and freedoms, free speech and expression, human dignity and integrity," he said. The E.U. is making encouraging but vague noises about the new Ukrainian leader. "He has a good track record," says a knowledgeable European Commission official. "But the question is whether he will have the means to push through the socially painful reforms that are necessary now." This pro-Western stance does not sit well with Putin, and Yushchenko hasn't done much so far to improve relations with Moscow...
Gladwell concedes defeat at the outset: what goes on in the locked magician's trunk of the unconscious will always be a mystery. But we can keep careful track of what goes into the box and what comes out of it. The unconscious mind is astonishingly good at filtering out superfluous data and seizing on essential truth, we learn, but too much time or information can confuse and blind it. And the unconscious mind can be trained. The psychologist John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with...
...hypothesis holds true. By introducing small changes to wind speeds and temperature in a computer simulation, Hoffman nudged the course of Hurricane Iniki, which leveled swaths of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1992. Shifts of up to 5 m.p.h. in wind speeds sent the eye of the storm on a track veering 60 miles to the west of the island, and 1??F fluctuations in temperature quelled its destructive winds. They sound easy enough, but in the real world those kinds of modifications "would require a huge amount of energy," says Hoffman, "not in the realm of what we're capable...
...conceived scheme. My only problem with it: these very reasonable, judicious folks from the State Department and the CIA are the same breed - sometimes the same people - who helped bungle U.S. policy in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and a few other hot spots of the 90s. With their track record, any Administration might have been skeptical of their advice on Osama and Saddam...
...summer, Bush was behind in the polls, and the pundits' predictions were growing more dire. Undecided voters would break for Kerry. No President had won with an approval rating below 50% so late in the campaign. More than 60% of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track. The war was a mess. It's eternally tempting for politicians to trade away principles while campaigning and say they will reconcile things when they win. But Bush aides insist that wasn't in their playbook. "Campaign meetings I was in when the President was 8 points down felt the same...