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October 11, 2012 12:13 PM
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan are gearing up for Thursday night's 90-minute televised debate, both looking to shore up support for their running mates in an increasingly tight presidential race.
Raising the stakes on the 9 p.m. debate is last week's faceoff that boosted poll numbers for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and heaped criticism on President Barack Obama for a lackluster performance.
Biden, a seasoned veteran of the U.S. Senate who once chaired the Senate foreign relations and judiciary committees, will try to defend the Obama administration's four years of policies, against Ryan, a 14-year U.S. representative from Wisconsin who as chair of the House Budget Committee was often at odds with Obama's proposals.
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The debate, being held at Centre College in Danville, Ky., will cover both foreign and domestic policy questions divided into ten segments. Each candidate will have two minutes to respond to questions from moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News.
Hours before the debate, both candidates expressed confidence in their upcoming performance.
"I'm not intimidated, I'm actually excited about it," Ryan told CNN.
"Looking forward to it," Biden said as he boarded his plane headed to Kentucky.
While both are well versed in domestic policy issues, the debate is expected to highlight their contrast in styles â€" Biden's "folksy" freewheeling speech often laden with gaffes to Ryan's "policy wonk" reliance on stats and figures to support his points.
Both have spent several days surrounded by aides, undergoing hours of policy briefings and practicing for the exchange.
Biden spent three days at a hotel in Wilmington, Del., competing in mock debates against Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) playing the role of Ryan.
Ryan spent three days in "debate camp" in central Virginia, and two days this week in St. Petersburg, Fla., debating former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, serving as Biden's stand-in.
The nation's attention will turn to Long Island on Tuesday, when Obama and Biden will have their second debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead. The debate is billed as a town hall format, with both men will take questions from a group of undecided voters. CNN political reporter Candy Crowley will serve as moderator.
Obama will look to reverse the trend of polling figures that show Romney gaining. A daily presidential tracking poll by the polling firm Rasmussen Reports showed Obama leading Romney by one percentage point 48-47, with two percent of respondents preferring another candidate and three percent undecided.
The final presidential debate will take place in the swing state of Florida on Oct. 22 at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, with a focus on foreign policy issues.
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Recommend Joe Biden, Paul Ryan to face off in vice-presidential debate - Newsday Topics Question by David S: Why is it that we always see the medical world constantly labeling common activities as new "addictions"? The way I see it, the medical world acts much like the media in the fact that they seek nearly as much attention using whatever they can come up with for a story. They are always labeling common activities, calling them "addictions". You here it all the time. Internet addiction. Video game addiction. On Yahoo's search page today they are spewing some story about sun tanning addiction. A habit can be developed by anyone for anything that they like to do. Are you going to say I need counseling because I have an addiction to flying a model airplane or fishing? I just think they more or less synthesize non-existent syndromes for ultimately, the money. Best answer for Why is it that we always see the medical world constantly labeling common activities as new "addictions"?:
Answer by mr.obvious
PLEASE Don't confuse the Medical Doctors with the Shrinks or Quack. Quacks are the single most scammers of insurance fraud. They have become so corrupt that they have ruined so many lives and they still get away with murder because they are so called Doctors, They are not Doctors, they are Sales people with a degree, Some are legit but most of them are to lazy to work and choose psychology for a field.There a numerous web sites exposing there tactics and the FDA and Government allows their corruption to flourish, They don't think you should swat your child's but to get their attention, you should give them a pill and take them to a counselor, Money Money Money, and we pay for this abuse.
Answer by amandla
An addiction, in general, is something that iterferes with a person's life in a significant manner, and that is to a large extent out of the person's control. A person who cannot (despite many attempts, guilt, etc) pull themselves away from their games or from surfing the internet, to the detriment of their performance at school, work, or in their social lives, could definitely benefit from the body of knowledge that tells us about addictive behavior and treatment. As the world changes we need to update our way of understanding it. Addiction is not a new concept. It may just be applied to new behaviors as they emerge. I saw the tanning addiction headline, which seems a bit silly to me too. Could imagine that it perhaps has something to do with the chemicals released in the body as a reaction to sunshine...mabe the way people can become addicted to the endorphin rush caused by strenuous excercise. Anything can be overdone, and the term addiction comes into play whenever there is a compulsion and a lack of control, no matter what the behavior. At the same time, by the way, things that used to be considered abnormal, unhealthy, pathological etc. are being reconsidered and redefined as perfectly OK. It would be pretty pathetic if medicine, psychology etc came to a standstill and refused to rethink what we believe to know, don;t you think?
Answer by mel
medical and its anciliary industries is billion-dollar industry. everytime u write something new, u get all kinds of kickbacks interms of professorship, research fundings, drug companies special thingys, media publicity etc. these r things we dont see. so it goes on a roll. everyone wants to say something abt anything under the sun. so its up to us to be discerning. lets do so. thanks for hi-lighting this. lets hope others take heed
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