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President Bush implored lawmakers and the nation last night to give him one more chance to win the war in Iraq and avoid the " nightmare scenario " of defeat while presenting a domestic agenda intended to find common cause with the new Democratic Congress on issues such as energy and immigration.Politically wounded but rhetorically unbowed , Bush gave no ground on his decision to dispatch 21,500 more troops to Iraq despite a bipartisan cascade of criticism . That 's particularly dismaying news because the show is hugely popular among college students , many of whom already do n't bother to cast ballots.Jody Baumgartner and Jonathan S. Morris of East Carolina University said previous research found that nearly half - - 48 percent - - of this age group watched " The Daily Show " and only 23 percent of show viewers followed " hard news " programs closely.To test for a " Daily Effect , " Baumgartner and Morris showed video clips of coverage of the 2004 presidential candidates to one group of college students and campaign coverage from " The CBS Evening News " to another group . " If you look at all the briefs , they are all written to Justice Kennedy , " said Benjamin W. Bull , chief counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund , an antiabortion legal organization.Solicitor General Paul D. Clement quotes Kennedy 's Stenberg dissent 22 times in his briefs defending the federal law , which was adopted by a wide margin in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003.Bush 's conservative appointees , Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ., have thin track records on abortion , and some court-watchers say they may not be sure to vote to support the ban.As chief justice , Roberts might have institutional concerns if the court appears to abandon a major abortion ruling that has been on the books for only six years . Several Web sites , notably ArabRap.net , serve as nerve centers for Arabic rap and help spread the music under the radar of government censors.Still , many nonsecular Arabs view rap as another intrusion of Western culture and " an affront to [ Arab ] heritage or an imitation of the West , " Kahf wrote.Arabic rappers respond to the challenge by using traditional instruments behind familiar rap beats . A fourth group was given exercises to speed up mental processing - - being asked to identify an object flashed briefly on a computer screen while fighting off distractions.Each of the groups being trained had 10 sessions , each lasting an hour to 75 minutes , and each session presented progressively more challenging problems . " Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told Wittes in a rare interview that some interest-group tactics used against his confirmation ( including an ad linking arguments he 'd once made to an abortion clinic bombing ) were " beyond the pale . In July , 2006 , the North again launched several tests missiles , provoking international condemnation and drawing strong reactions from both the United States and Japan ; the United Nations Security Council adopted some limited military sanctions in response . He added that abortion opponents are engaged in a long-term struggle to take " a couple of steps " each year to reduce abortions . Each of Egypt 's statesmen averaged 139.6 tickets a year , while members of Chad 's tiny delegation , which amounted to two diplomats in 1998 , averaged 124.3 . In 1999 a North Korean torpedo boat was sunk by a South Korean vessel in South Korean waters following a gun battle , and another deadly naval confrontation following a North Korean incursion in 2002 . " Indeed , the Texas cases heard yesterday had all been decided more than 15 years ago , when Texas juries were asked to answer only yes or no to two questions when deciding whether to impose death . The FBI this week released 1,561 pages from its files on Rehnquist in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed after his death in September 2005 . " This kind of training works no matter where you are in society . Americans spend billions of dollars each year on their physical well-being , but there are no comparable efforts to keep people mentally agile and strong.If anything , the study suggests , there is a bigger payoff to mental exercise , because the brief training sessions seemed to confer enormous benefits as many as five years later . The country made some strides toward its goal of self-sufficiency , but large expenditures on its military and centralized control have been drags on the economy . " What 's worrying me about this case is . Now there is one area in which I need no training . The race penalty , on average , totaled about $ 1,000 per black victim.As Iyengar and his colleagues subsequently dug deeper into these data , another finding emerged : Republicans consistently gave less aid , and gave over a shorter period of time , to victims regardless of race . " " Is n't it odd jurisprudence where we have an objective that we state in one set of terms but a means for achieving it in another set of terms ? Only a handful of decisions each year define the Supreme Court for the American public , and that might be especially appropriate this year.After decades of decline in its caseload , the court is once again on track to take its fewest number of cases in modern history . " " If you think you have come to a time in your life when new learning is impossible and there are no benefits of continuing mental activity , the study shows that for a large number of people that this is not true , " added Marsiske , a clinical and health psychologist at the University of Florida at Gainesville.The participants in the study ranged from age 65 to their early 90s , but Marsiske said the findings apply to people in their 50s or even younger . Some of the other more important minerals that are produced are copper , lead , zinc , uranium , manganese , gold , silver , and tungsten . " The right-to-life folks have not seen their concern addressed in years , so this gives them hope there is still some interest in this issue , " Marshall said .