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...often not entirely baked. A case in point: Frum's "axis of evil" and its accompanying doctrine of pre-emption, which Bush announced at West Point last June and discarded in Korea this January. The revised doctrine: Caveat Pre-Emptors. We have the moral responsibility to pre-empt evildoers...unless they have the ability to empt back (as North Korea does). This is an embarrassment, and a rather dangerous one at that. There should be a lesson in it for the President. A diplomacy of quiet strength and careful words, and the rigorous parsing of nuances--the latter, a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Leadership in the Details? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...though, the DSM can't achieve certainty because psychiatry can't. Unless brain researchers discover exactly how neurological mechanisms become abnormal, the DSM will always include more hypotheses than answers. Which means all those guys fantasizing about tennis outfits are probably just weird, not certifiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnostics: How We Get Labeled | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...have been moody and sad, unable to eat or sleep, chances are you suffer from clinical depression--unless, of course, it's just a bout of the blues. If you have a nasty habit of getting into brawls, chances are you are an antisocial personality--unless, of course, you are just a bit of a hothead. What determines whether you are sick or well? Often as not, it's whether you are male or female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Sex Got to Do with It? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure he's crazy, and Stewart, wrestling with ill-tempered Mongolian horses and occasionally incompetent guides, is tempted to agree. But he ultimately achieves his goal, carried along by the endless promise of the Mongolian landscape, the plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trailing Genghis | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Omen Pathologists warn that the banana's days are numbered. The fruit lacks the genetic diversity to ward off diseases and could eventually vanish unless biotechnology is used to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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