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...potentially useful drug—than to the risks of inaction? Why is it scarier that a drug will cause us heart trouble than that not taking a targeted cancer-killer will result in our deaths? Rationally speaking, it’s not: A death from a heart attack is not much worse than a death from colon cancer. So, if I have cancer and Gleevec makes it 20 percent less likely that I will die from that cancer but it also makes it 10 percent more likely that I will die from heart failure (in fact, it?...
...event at Harvard Hall, Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen ’74 said that the U.S. should focus on both deterring terrorist groups from using nuclear weapons as well as developing the ability to defend itself in case of a nuclear attack...
...Pentagon. He, and the Bush Administration, failed to make the tough choices necessary to build a 21st century fighting force. Instead, they stuffed billions of dollars into a 20th century weapons system that sprang from the drawing board when Russia was still the Soviet Union. As F-22 attack planes and Virginia-class submarines consumed the Pentagon's purse, there weren't enough soldiers to prevail in Iraq - and those dispatched lacked the necessary armor to do their jobs...
...Enraged Palestinian radicals also want to start targeting the U.S. Meshal called on Muslims around the world, mainly in Egypt and Jordan, which have ties with Tel Aviv, to attack Israeli and U.S. targets. Both Egypt and Jordan have radical underground jihadi groups, some with links to al-Qaeda. In a statement, Hamas claimed: "America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons." Hamas is split into factions...
...This folksiness is what launched Burns, the one-time outsider, to Washington. Now, he is threatened by the thought that “he has been in Washington too long”—a career-ending allegation in Montana, one that is daily conveyed by Democratic attack commercials so prevalent that they often run consecutively on local television...