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Republicans are hoping Bush's popularity can ward off the midterm-election jinx that a President's party usually faces. But they also know G.O.P. candidates tend to suffer whenever the debate turns to issues affecting people at or approaching retirement age. That group votes more dependably than any other, especially in off-year elections, and now includes the leading edge of the baby boom, 76 million strong. Democrats are well practiced at exploiting the group's fears. In 1982 the party stoked anxiety about Social Security reform and picked up 26 seats in the House; in 1986 the same...
...leveling force is the passage of time, and that, in a way, was the message the Oklahomans had for the New Yorkers. "In the days after a disaster, everybody wants to help, but that fades," a mental-health expert told the videoconference. "People tend to say, 'O.K., that's enough. Drop it.'" Which is why any feelings of rivalry during the session were trumped by a desire to soothe. The people who begrudge the money? "They are definitely in the minority," said Oklahoma widow Diane Leonard...
...also quite addictive. "Xanax is extremely potent," says Dr. Steven Juergens of Virginia Mason University, who was the first to write about Xanax addiction, in 1988. "It acts quickly on the brain and has a short half-life." Users of such drugs tend to come back for more and more. Xanax is also used by partygoers as a "parachute" drug to bring them down from the effects of stimulants such as ecstasy. It's this combination of drugs, suggests Dr. Herbert Kleber, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, that may account for the current interest in Xanax...
...Father Svetislav Nojic, 64, continues to hold sparsely attended Sunday liturgies, though worshipers must travel under armed guard to get there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years," he says. "I plan to stay here and die here...
...most ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. - a third of the population is Hispanic, a third is Asian, and the other third is everything else. Many of the city's cybercafes are owned and operated by Korean immigrants and, like their popular counterparts in Korea, the establishments tend to be a magnet for Asian gangs. The gangs are very fluid entities: unlike Crips or Bloods, they don't wear colors, and members don't readily admit to their existence. They were originally formed for self-defense, but have gradually become more offensive, with gangs from different backgrounds (Korean, Vietnamese...