Word: wakes
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...results didn't surprise me," says Dr. Mark Schuster, one of the authors of the new study, published in Pediatrics, and chief of general pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. "But there's something about having actual data that serves as a wake-up call to parents who are not talking to their kids about very important issues until later than we think would be best...
...drove a bus eight hours a day in New York City. A lot of people have far harder jobs than I have. Wake Up with Al on the Weather Channel starts at 6 a.m. I get up at 3:15; I'm in the office by 4:45. It helps me in a way, because I've already been doing the weather for an hour by the time I get to the Today show...
Zuma describes the demonstrations as recurring annual phenomenon. But he is not complacent. "[The protests] say to the government that we had better move," he says. "It's a wake-up call. 'Deal with this! Pay serious attention!' If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose confidence in the ANC." That is the promise of Jacob Zuma. That after half a century in which so many of Africa's independence hopes soured into arrogant dictatorships, the new leader of its proudest democracy accepts that if he wants the job, he's got to earn...
...threats of force - could prevail over a slew of hostile regimes and movements at the same time. And it was easy to believe that the U.S. could afford these military adventures, particularly for conservatives like Dick Cheney, who famously declared that "deficits don't matter." Finally, in the wake of communism's collapse and the spread of democracy throughout the developing world, hawks tended to see dictatorships as brittle, devoid of popular support. This epic faith in the U.S.'s military, economic and ideological power fueled Bush's decision to define the war on terrorism as the U.S. against...
...European societies anti-Islam? That's a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland's referendum to ban the building of minarets in the Alpine country. Almost 6 out of 10 Swiss voters supported the ban - charges of racism be damned. France passed a law in 2004 that bans young women from wearing Islamic headscarves in public schools, and has now joined the Netherlands in debating a ban on full-body coverings like a burqa. And Muslims in multicultural Britain have also repeatedly accused officials there of talking down to them with urges to drop clothes that...