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...Tony has a track record in this because of what he did with the peace process in Northern Ireland. What Tony has is both charm and persistence - he's not a quitter. He goes over there again and again, trying to bring people together and getting them to understand the twin desires - Israel for security, and for the Palestinians, a chance to have a true state of their...
...showed that Asians had the highest rate of participation in community service and the majority received grades of As and Bs. Hacker said that the relationship between these statistics is not yet known. “We’re in the middle of an analysis right now to understand the risk factors in the Asian population,” she told the council members. Mary Wong, the executive director of the council, said that the report on mental health was compiled in response to a discussion that began in September 2007, when members wanted to explore whether at-risk...
...implement democracy there, Traub shows the dark side of this particular political system and how corruption can corrode any government with good intentions. Considering the current situation in Iraq and other Middle Eastern and African nations in political turmoil, it is of the utmost importance that we, as Americans, understand democracy and its faults. And Traub successfully helps...
...responsibility for his actions. He goes on to justify his illegal activities as a means of protecting himself and his family, but he ultimately returns to his culpability: “True enough, I was dead wrong, I broke the law, I deserve to be punished… I understand that.” “You Ain’t Missin’ Nothin’,” a track exhorting current prisoners to turn over a new leaf, is in a similar (and long overdue) vein of maturity. So is “Dead and Gone...
...Professor Masahiko Okada of Niigata University School of Medicine questions the hype around the banana diet. The human body has three essential nutrients - carbohydrates, fat and protein -, he says, and "the golden rule is to balance these three nutrients and a daily calorie intake. Once you understand that, you don't have to be swayed by the fad diet any more, whether it is a konnyaku (alimentary yam paste) or a banana diet." But a nation prone to dieting fads often ignores such sober advice...