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...people," Putin said reassuringly. He may well believe that. Yet as a visit to Grozny makes evident, the Russians are not only failing to win new friends in the city, they are losing old ones - the Chechens who fought alongside the advancing Russians last year, the city policemen who warn locals away from improvised checkpoints and the professionals Chechnya desperately needs if it is ever to re-emerge from the ruins...
...fact that phobias, of all the anxiety disorders, can be overcome so readily is one of psychology's brightest bits of clinical news in a long time. Phobias can beat the stuffing out of sufferers because the feelings they generate seem so real and the dangers they warn of so great. Most of the time, however, the dangers are mere neurochemical lies--and the lies have to be exposed. "Your instincts tell you to escape or avoid," says Phillipson. "But what you really need to do is face down the fear." When you spend your life in a cautionary crouch...
...first hint of trouble. Both McConnell and Texan Phil Gramm, another reform foe, were going to vote with Wellstone. Why would Gramm and McConnell vote with a liberal? Suddenly Buse understood: Wellstone's amendment was a poison pill, with the potential to kill the whole measure. He rushed to warn McCain...
Kites hovering ahead of us indicated a ger. The tradition is to shout "Hold the dog!" on approaching to warn the occupants to restrain their snarling mastiff. Let the horsemen deal with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade...
...farm and continent to continent. The current crisis began when a bit of infected meat found its way into a school lunch in Britain's Northumberland in mid-February and then, as leftovers, into swill fed to pigs at a local fattening facility. Before the first symptoms appeared to warn of the danger, the virus was spreading to farms all across the country as animals were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned up in Northern Ireland and jumped the English Channel to a farm in western France. But even before French veterinarians confirmed...