This Week @ U.S. News
Highlights from the magazine and usnews.com
January 10, 2005
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COVER STORIES: The Dobson way
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, perhaps more than anyone, will be most credible in leveraging evangelical power at the voting booth. That's partly because, politics aside, he's unrivaled as an evangelical leader. For Dobson, his followers, and many American evangelicals, writes Dan Gilgoff, "change might finally be in the offing. Next week brings the second inauguration of the most religious practicing evangelical president in modern history; he is expected to fill a string of Supreme Court vacancies with strongly conservative voices. And a handful of newly elected evangelical senators have already taken their seats on Capitol Hill."
An evangelical leader steps squarely into the political ring
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NATION & WORLD
--"Two weeks after the massive floods that took so many lives in so many different countries, many of those left to cope with the apocalyptic aftermath are finding it impossible to imagine the future, immobilzed by the prospect of putting their shattered lives back together," writes Susan Brink from Banda Aceh in Indonesia. "Well-meaning relief workers tell of rebuilding efforts but say they will take as long as three years. The survivors stare blankly, utterly unable to concieve of tomorrow, much less three years from now."
The fight for life
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a5--In a letter from Indonesia, Thomas Omestad writes of the trip by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the tsunami zone. "Powell's hastily arranged tour of the region was aimed at demonstrating U.S. concern for the victims and reversing a perception that Washington's initial response to the disaster was sluggish. Ironically, even with U.S. military helicopters performing the most visible aid deliveries in places like Indonesia, Powell found himself repeatedly challenged as to whether America's pledge of $350 million was enough. Indeed, several other nations continued to pledge higher and higher amounts of relief assistance in a game of diplomatic one-upmanship."
A diplomat's sobering trip
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a7--"The emotional consequences of trauma and disaster constitute a vast new field of professional inquiry," writes Marianne Szegedy-Maszak. "After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a small mental health industry sprang up almost overnight, as post-traumatic stress disorder became as familiar a medical term as epilepsy. In the areas hardest hit by the tsunami, helping victims deal with the emotional effects of the breathtaking loss and devastation will be critical."
The borders of healing
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MONEY & BUSINESS
--While the new year brings some of the same uncertainties as last year, writes James M. Pethokoukis, "there's also a new element in the worry mix. President Bush, fresh off a decisive victory--at least compared with his 2000 win--has declared his intent to move forward with a bold domestic agenda to which investors need to pay close attention.
First and foremost is Bush's promise to tackle the issue of Social Security..." In this week's edition, U.S. News business writers look at all the angles of finance in 2005.
Capitol crunch
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a4--The debate is joined over reforming Social Security
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a3--Investors and savers must keep abreast of the ever-changing tax code
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HEALTH
--Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy that can threaten the life of both mother and child. It is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Last week, writes Nancy Shute, "researchers announced that they had found abnormally low levels of a placental growth factor in the urine of women who later went on to develop preeclampsia... The hope is that these findings, once confirmed and expanded, will lead to a good early test for preeclampsia."
Babies in peril
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a2--Avery Comarow writes about a pair of new studies that examine the role of inflammation in cornonary artery disease. The studies, in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, make a case for tracking not only LDL (bad) and HDL (good) cholesterol in known and potential heart patients but also their C-reactive protein. Elevated CRP is a signal of inflammation, which most heart experts now agree is involved in coronary artery disease.
Inflammatory findings
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COLUMNISTS
--Supporting those who serve
On Politics by Gloria Borger
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a12--I need somebody to blame
On Society by John Leo
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a120763a272335445a10--In America, what price glory?
Editorial by Mortimer B. Zuckerman
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