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...turnabout is proving contagious. Sulak has sold her slide kits to health-care workers in 44 states. More significant, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which has long been on the other bank of the sex-ed divide, will honor her with a presidential award next spring. Meanwhile, a group of more than 400 doctors collaborated on an abstinence CD-ROM, Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians' Guide to Adolescence and Sex, released last month by the National Physicians Center for Family Resources. "Parents and children want medical facts, not a one-sided moralist approach," says Dianna Lightfoot, the center...
...drive home the Arafat comparison, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee this week wrote to President Bush to warn that India has last all faith in Musharraf and is unable do business with him. Avoiding a war now will depend, Vajpayee warned, either on a complete and unlikely turnabout by Musharraf, or else on his ouster - a position familiar as Sharon's on Arafat...
...comparisons are apt to be misleading. Still, it's hard to avoid the similarity between Musharraf's domestic political situation and Arafat's - even in the tactics adopted by their domestic opponents. Musharraf's strategic choice to align with the U.S. against al-Qaeda involved a wrenching 180-degree turnabout for the Pakistani security establishment that is his power base. Pakistan's intelligence service and military had nurtured the Taliban, helped it win power and fight off its enemies. The camps run by al-Qaeda had also been used, with the connivance of Pakistani intelligence officers, to train Pakistani...
...direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader's confinement to Ramallah. More diplomatic discomfort for the Israeli leader emerged Monday, when Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called for a Sharon-Arafat summit meeting in Egypt. Sitting down with Arafat would require a 180-degree turnabout by Sharon right now. But Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed interest in the idea. Of course, that's not the same as President Bush endorsing it, but the Israelis will be watching his reaction with interest when he meets with Mubarak Tuesday...
...Sharon's talks with Arafat's men were certainly greeted as a turnabout in the Israeli media, but the prime minister has plenty of incentive, domestically and internationally, to open up his options. A poll published by the Israeli daily Maariv last Friday showed Sharon's approval rating down to 48 percent from the 70 percent he'd enjoyed six months ago. Israel's worsening recession has eroded some of his support - three quarters of respondents slammed his handling of the economy - but 54 percent disapproved of his handling of security issues, and 47 percent favored a resumption of talks...