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...continent as President, Obama vowed to address a perception that the George W. Bush Administration had overlooked Washington's Pacific allies. "I want every American to know that we have a stake in the future of this region," Obama said in Tokyo, "because what happens here has a direct effect on our lives at home." But since then the Obama Administration has dropped the ball on promoting U.S.-Asia trade, neglecting to implement regional free-trade pacts. "We do hope that [Obama's Asia visit] will not be like Santa Claus coming and just giving a few gifts and then...
Obama has spoken about Asia's significance. "I want every American to know that we have a stake in the future of this region," he said in Tokyo last November, "because what happens here has a direct effect on our lives at home." But since then the Obama Administration has failed to do much to advance the free-trade agreements that Asia seeks. "We do hope that [Obama's Asia visit] will not be like Santa Claus coming and just giving a few gifts and flying away," says Thailand's Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot, "because what we need from...
...Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have long argued that statins should be prescribed to women at moderately high risk for heart disease. Grundy says the underrepresentation of women in drug trials does not discount statins' benefit; it results only in a failure to show a statistically significant effect. Grundy was one of the authors of the 2001 national guidelines for lowering cholesterol and the 2004 revisions that greatly expanded the use of statins - and were criticized because of his and other authors' ties to the drug industry...
Judith Hsia, senior director for clinical development at AstraZeneca, which makes Crestor, says the trial was designed to measure the statin's effect on all end points together, not individual end points. "The people who had bypass surgery or stenting would not characterize that as a nonevent," says Hsia. "It's not death, but it's still substantial...
...service members, in terms of the views of their families and influencers," Gates said. Congress, in turn, is likely to delay any action on a repeal until that report is finished. That means the next eight months - and how those in uniform react to Gates' changes, which take effect immediately - are likely to play a key role in the ultimate fate of "Don't ask, don't tell...