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...them throwing back there, so I’d just wander over there with my dad, and I’d watch them,” Hendricks says. “My dad had gotten me one of those big bats, so I liked...
...president has repeatedly claimed that America’s commitment to peace and prosperity in Iraq will be as great as its current commitment to regime change. But his record in Afghanistan shows that when the last bombs have fallen, this president’s mind tends to wander, and commitments made to starving people give way to tax cuts and new military adventures. If we want a lasting peace and a country that is not hated around the world, the American people must ensure that Iraq is not forgotten as Afghanistan has been. Afghanistan’s return...
...outside," their commander appealed to a couple of them who seemed ready to wander off. My own attempt at low-profile maintenance foundered soon after. Our four-wheel-drive with "TV" written on the roof and hood didn't help. One of the Americans swore quietly, and I was invited to leave. I parked across the road...
...variety of exercises designed to tax their self-control. In one of them, a group was asked to refrain from thinking about a white bear (not an easy thing to do once the idea has been planted in your mind). The other participants were allowed to let their thoughts wander. Afterward, both groups were given tricky anagrams to solve. The white-bear folks gave up much faster than the free thinkers, suggesting that the former had depleted their supply of self-control. Though the precise mechanism of willpower is unknown, Baumeister suggests that it can be restored by sleep, positive...
...Saddam's control. After Powell's speech, officials of Ansar al-Islam, a militant Kurdish group that includes veterans of al-Qaeda camps, escorted journalists to a ramshackle dirt encampment in the village of Serget whose layout appeared to match Powell's satellite photo. Reporters were allowed to wander freely and found only living quarters and a radio station. But Fareed Asasard, head of the Kurdistan Strategic Studies Center and a top official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which controls the areas around Ansar's enclave, says the lab at the camp is "very far from modern" but that...