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...What kind of impression did Obama make when you met him in Chicago back in the 1990s? Brilliant among many brilliant people. A rather astonishing brain. Warm. A very, very keen listener. An unusually curious human being. We're lucky, in my opinion...
...world. In the painting we can see only her back, laid out on the yellow grasses, tending all the force of her mind and body toward the gray, dilapidated farmhouse at the top of the long hill. This is not an ideal of the way life once was, but rather, at least as I see it, a parable of just dealing with it, which Wyeth happened to set in the fields of Pennsylvania that he knew and loved...
...Wang is not certain what's behind the differences, though he suspects hormones may play a significant role. He did get a better sense of the areas of the brain those hormones affect most, owing to the fact that he used a long-running PET scan rather than a shorter session with a functional magnetic resonance imager (fMRI), which is how such studies are usually conducted. This afforded him a good look at the amygdala, the deepest and most primitive of the brain structures involved. When the amygdala acts up, it's exceedingly hard to bring it to heel...
...best questions for the Obama Administration to ask are not how many troops, how quickly or for how long but rather what Afghanistan should look like when the U.S. leaves and how much time and money Washington is willing to spend...
...until the last minute before Israel declared its cease-fire, Hamas was firing rockets. Five hit the ports of Ashkelon and Ashdod as well as the inland towns of Beersheba and Sderot. And unless Hamas is obliged by Egypt and other Arab states to sign a truce with Israel, rather than following Israel's example of declaring its own, it may be only days or weeks before the Islamists or any of the myriad militant groups in Gaza decide to take revenge for the Israeli assault and again start firing rockets into southern Israel. And that, judging from Olmert...