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Beneath the Administration's confidence that a war with Iraq can be won quickly with limited U.S. casualties lurks an anxiety about the catastrophic events an invasion might trigger. "We can overthrow Saddam Hussein, no doubt about it," says a Central Command planner. "The question is, Can we do it and keep his weapons of mass destruction bottled up at the same time?" The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no. "If they come," said Uday Hussein last week, "Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic...
...must recognize that weapons inspectors are doing their job and doing it well,” he said. “There’s no need to pull the trigger...
Kennedy said the international community is right to demand further proof of weapons violations. “We must recognize that weapons inspectors are doing their job and doing it well,” he said. “There’s no need to pull the trigger...
...deeply rooted conflicts behind the conditions. More immediate results can be gained through cognitive and behavioral therapy, which teach coping skills. A new treatment known as dialectical behavior therapy, developed by clinical psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington, can teach borderlines to recognize the situations that trigger explosive feelings, helping them squelch a reaction before it erupts. "The first thing we teach is to get control of the behavior," says Linehan. "After that, we work on feeling better...
...successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring, these "slices" can be combined to create the illusion of depth. The resulting pictures of bone and soft tissue can help doctors distinguish between patients with a psychiatric disorder and those with head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s researchers uncovered the first distinguishing abnormality in these patients' brains: the ventricles (fluid-filled open spaces), circled in yellow, are significantly larger in those with the disease, left, than in normal subjects, far left. This provided...