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Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. Dean Ornish

Love Wisdom Time Needs World Compassion Increasingly Badly Survive May Us Help

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy. Dean Ornish

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If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to make bigger changes in diet and lifestyle than someone who just wants to lose a few pounds and is otherwise healthy. If you just want to lower your cholesterol, weight or blood pressure, begin by making moderate changes. Dean Ornish

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What we do eat is at least as important as what we don't eat. Dean Ornish

Important Eat Least

There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure. Dean Ornish

Love Medicine Intimacy Having Tendency Because Anything Dismiss Hard Measure

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy. Dean Ornish

You Healing Intimacy Out Takes Context Being Anything Separate Separateness

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed. Denise Dresser

War Good Failure People Good Intentions Carried Out Something Badly Perhaps Executed Very Intended So Many People Intentions War On Drugs View Many

Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses. Denise Dresser

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Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services. Denise Dresser

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Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself. Denise Dresser

Myself Political Never Like Envisioned Role Which Suddenly

PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine. Denise Dresser

Welfare Machine

For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker. Denise Dresser

Corruption Deal Mexicans Breaker

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders. Denise Dresser

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The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability. Denise Dresser

Force Itself Stability Center

I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting. Denise Dresser

The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations. Denise Dresser

Relations Emergence Advent New New Era Era Issues Coalition Whole Shows

The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions. Denise Dresser

Protect Accord Pact Among

Mexico is a free trade partner of Canada. Despite that, for many Canadians, Mexico is even more foreign, unknown, and uninteresting than many countries in Africa. Denise Dresser

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Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates. Denise Dresser

Country Presidential Debates Mexico Candidates Among Routine

I tweet 20 times a day, not only about Mexican politics, but about film, books, restaurants, U.S. politics. Denise Dresser

Politics Day Books Restaurants About Only Mexican Times Tweet Film

While the United States is closing doors, Canada is opening them. While U.S. President Donald Trump is slouching toward authoritarianism, Canada is safeguarding democracy. Denise Dresser

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Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion. Denise Dresser

World Compassion About Proud Canadians Much Teach

Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver. Denise Dresser

Change Corruption Management Better Crime Those Economic Deliver Voted Call Him His Expect Endorsed Less Who Fox

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