An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
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It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
