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...twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are. At times they come across as cynical adrenaline junkies: "If the dominant mythology of [Vietnam] turns on a generation's loss of innocence," Wright observes, "these young men entered Iraq predisposed toward the idea that the Big Lie is as central to American governance as taxation." At the same time, their loyalty to one another under fire is touching. Instead of losing innocence in combat, they seem to gain...
Doctors have long suspected that excess fat around the belly--as opposed to the thighs or hips--increases the chances of developing heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Apparently, abdominal fat doesn't just lie there and jiggle. It actively promotes ill health by, among other things, pumping out inflammatory proteins and interfering with the body's ability to use insulin. So it seemed plausible to many physicians that surgically removing belly fat by liposuction could give patients a double benefit: a slimmer physique and a better metabolic profile...
...lie to you: dating is tough for older women. Online, some men will tell you they want only a woman who is younger--or thinner or blonder or something. Don't take that personally; just move on. There are reasonable men in your age range. Most are divorced and sincerely interested in finding someone. Lots have emotional issues--anger, neediness and fear of intimacy among them. Who doesn't, really? But those can often be worked out. It may take three weeks or three months or a year to know whether a relationship will last. More won't than will...
...instincts, like his rhetoric, evolved over the course of his two terms as the ground began shifting beneath him. After a decade of Presidents carefully talking detente, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign policy--like...
...three captives knew nothing of that, though they assumed the videos taken of them eating nice meals would be used as propaganda. In reality, Agliana told TIME last week, the food was snatched away as soon as the cameras stopped rolling and the Italians were bound and forced to lie on the floor. Meals were limited mostly to pita bread and broth, and the men were often given only dirty water to drink, Agliana said. To cope, the three took on roles, with Salvatore Stefio's good English making him "the Leader." Agliana said he fell into the part...