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Then in 1998 the U.S. firm Hoffmann--La Roche agreed to pay $200 million for the right to develop drugs based on some of deCODE's data. The idea that a foreign company might profit from their personal information made many Icelanders balk. A woman named Ragnhildur Gudmundsdottir sued to keep her deceased father's medical records from going into the deCODE-run database, citing a right to privacy, and in 2003 Iceland's supreme court ruled in her favor...
Furthermore, the women in the intervention group had 9% fewer polyps and other precancerous growths in their lower gastrointestinal tract. Given that it takes a decade or more for colorectal cancer to develop, it may be too soon to see if there's a corresponding drop in cancer rates. Also, the women increased their average consumption of fruits and vegetables only slightly, from four to five servings a day. "Maybe if we had gotten up to seven or so, on average, we would have been in a better place," says Shirley Beresford, a study leader and an epidemiologist...
...Islamic Republic of Iran has left few in doubt of the fact that it intends to develop nuclear weapons in direct violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty it signed in 1968. For several years now, European powers like France, Britain, and Germany have tried to negotiate with this regime, while on this side of the Atlantic, the United States—its hands tied in Iraq—has stood by, a complicit “bad cop.” The attempts at dialogue have proved futile, and because of this, the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) last week...
...Heading for an another inevitable gold-medal showdown at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Team Canada and Team U.S.A. are alone at the top of a women's sport struggling mightily to develop outside North America. They have contested the final of every significant international tournament since the International Ice Hockey Federation first sanctioned the women's world championships in 1990. Canada won eight consecutive world titles until Team U.S.A.'s 1-0 victory last April in Sweden, decided by an overtime shoot-out. The Americans captured the inaugural Winter Olympics tournament at Nagano, Japan, and Canada rebounded...
...21st century, however, will not be a European century. It will likely—unless America’s ineptness in confronting many pressing systemic economic and political problems suddenly changes—be an Asian century. Regardless of how things precisely develop, this much is clear: Europe’s role over the next 100 years will be of secondary and rapidly diminishing importance...