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...Cyprus Together Again? The latest in a decades-long series of reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots began on this Mediterranean island Sept. 3, and with both sides' leaders taking moderate positions, hopes are high for a resolution this time. A brief recap of the divided nation's contentious history...
...toll on healthy as well as diseased tissue. Nor has the national health-care system done a great job of prevention and early detection. Worst of all, many people don't have access to care. Overall, the death rate from cancer dropped just 5% from 1950 to 2005, the latest available data. During the same period of time, deaths from heart disease dropped...
Some of the latest weapons in Big Pharma's arsenal result from that understanding. Gleevec, for instance, treats one form of leukemia by zeroing in on the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, that part of the genome that directs bone marrow to keep making abnormal white blood cells. Because of drugs like Gleevec and therapies such as bone-marrow and stem-cell transplants, there are 12 million people walking around today who are classified as survivors...
...through academia last December by detailing a new financial-aid policy that will charge families making up to $180,000 just 10% of their household income per year, substantially subsidizing the annual cost of more than $45,600 for all but its wealthiest students. The move was just the latest in what has amounted to a financial-aid bidding war in recent years among the U.S.'s élite universities as they try to ease concerns over staggering tuition bills...
...critics say the episode is only the latest to suggest Sarkozy has blurred the lines between personal friendships and presidential responsibilities. Following his election last year, for example, Sarkozy accepted the free use of a yacht owned by billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré - a gift detractors call a potential conflict of interest, given the frequent intervention of the state into French economic affairs...