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...allowed tea because she believed it had much less (it actually has almost twice as much as soda per serving). Rather than a diagnostic test, I suggested slowly cutting out the caffeine in Dylan's diet and returning to my office in two weeks. At Dylan's next visit, his mother announced his headaches were gone and his teachers were thrilled with his new found attentiveness to his class work. His mother was happy because he was eating better and sleeping better. And though Dylan missed his iced tea, he admitted he felt better - especially now that he wasn...
President Bush's arrival in Baghdad Tuesday caught Iraqis off guard, as the U.S. had planned. But these days it takes more than a visit from the American President to shock them. Coverage of Bush's arrival competed with continuing media coverage of World Cup soccer for the attention of Iraqis. And after the electric response last week to the death of Jordanian arch-terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the news of Bush's first visit in nearly three years was met with little excitement...
...Indeed, Bush's visit comes a day in advance of what could be a more significant event: a Baghdad-wide counterinsurgent crackdown involving tens of thousands of Iraqi troops. Both that operation and the Bush visit are an attempt to capitalize on the momentum of the past week, including the long-delayed appointment of government ministers responsible for the country's military and police...
...American president's visit, of course, is mainly symbolic - there's little he did in Baghdad that he couldn't have done over a videoconference from Camp David, as his official schedule for the day had called for. But symbolism matters. It puts the President firmly behind new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at a moment when speculation in the U.S. has turned to whether the Washington will begin later this year to draw down troop levels...
...request that government officials cut ties to the school, as Venezuela first did in 2004. Their efforts have already paid off: Uruguay and Argentina pledged this spring not to send any troops in the future, and Bolivia is officially reducing the number it will send. The group will visit Peru, Chile and Equador in August...