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...advisory panel to the National Cancer Institute concluded that a harsh critique by two Danish researchers of the data supporting mammography's benefits had enough merit that its conclusions should be addressed in the cancer database maintained by the NCI. For now, the cancer institute is not changing its basic recommendation that women age 40 and older undergo routine mammograms. But it is planning to review the policy. "This is a very complex issue," says Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of cancer prevention at the NCI. "It doesn't mean that it's wrong [to get a mammogram], just that...
...Karzai's basic problem is that he lacks a monopoly of force, and is looking to the international community to provide the enforcers that will give his government the muscle to function as the law of the land. But foreign reluctance to participate is based on the very real dangers that lurk in a mission that would ultimately require disarming hundreds of local and provincial warlords. After all, it's not only in isolated cases such as Gardez that the post-Taliban power arrangement threatens to break down into new fighting...
...Dave Thompson: The most important thing is to control who gets in. At the Olympics, you've got a lot of people, and a basic tenet of security is to keep control over who gets close to the venues - and that includes trucks making deliveries and buses coming in and out of restricted areas...
...Arafat could die tomorrow. Or be forced to throw in the towel and head back to Tunisia and oblivion. And the basic terms for securing peace between Israel and the Palestinians would remain unchanged. If anything, there are sound reasons to be believe the resulting power struggle among rival Palestinian factions would, if anything, make achieving a peace agreement even more difficult...
...food is basic but nicely prepared. I started with half a dozen oysters in a mignonette sauce and followed with lobster tail atop a bed of risotto. Both dishes were fine, as were the asparagus soup and rack of lamb my companion ordered...