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...town meetings or door-to-door work; there are simply too many doors. The prevailing wisdom among consultants is that you run in California by raising a lot of money and putting it all on television. The public has reacted to these soulless exercises with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some hot-button initiative-about race, immigration or taxes, inevitably-on the ballot. Indeed, there is a weird karmic genius to the current electoral gimmick, the movement to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. It has turned...
...prefrontal cortex (right behind our foreheads) from the right hemisphere to the left. Davidson's research suggests that by meditating regularly, the brain is reoriented from a stressful fight-or-flight mode to one of acceptance, a shift that increases contentment. People who have a negative disposition tend to be right-prefrontal oriented; left-prefrontals have more enthusiasms, more interests, relax more and tend to be happier, though perhaps with less real estate...
...themselves. ECOMOG forces have often been criticized for causing more problems than they solve. Human-rights groups cite rape and summary executions allegedly committed by ECOMOG troops in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. West African soldiers also used their time abroad to run businesses like illegal diamond trading. "They tend to strike fear into people's hearts," says Martin Rupiya, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, a South Africa-based think tank. "Whether that's a good thing or not depends on whose side they take." Liberians may be prepared to overlook such tactics as long...
...Departments tend to be sort of silos, autonomous entities, and I’m hoping that what a humanities dean will be able to do is facilitate dialogue,” she said...
Because folks with Alzheimer's tend to waste away, obesity is not something we associate with the disease. But a new study shows that women who are overweight in their 70s have a significantly higher risk of developing the brain disorder by their late 80s--the first strong evidence to link the obesity epidemic to the growing incidence of Alzheimer's. It's also a good reason to stay trim. A 5-ft. 4in. woman who weighs 145 lbs. increases her Alzheimer's risk 36% with every 7 lbs. she gains. --By Sanjay Gupta...