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...cancer rates, the ACOG is now loosening its guidelines. The group also took into account recent studies on the risks of screening. Risks include the removal of abnormal lesions found during Pap smears, which are common in young women and teens, but often go away on their own if left untreated. The procedures used to remove the lesions may be linked to long-term reproductive harms, such as premature birth, underweight babies and an increased risk of cesarean section birth. Weighing the risks, the ACOG determined that the evidence supported later, and less frequent screening. "A review of the evidence...
...chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan acting to stop its territory being used to attack Western forces next door. And that's bad news, because the demands of its own domestic counterinsurgency campaign, doubts about the duration of U.S. commitment in Afghanistan and looming political instability in Islamabad have left Pakistan in no hurry to help...
...case against Mujib's suspected killers only moved forward when his daughter Hasina rose to power in 1996 as head of the secular, center-left Awami League party he had founded. Hasina's government lifted the legal ordinance put into place by Mujib's usurpers that protected the coup's conspirators. But in 2001, Hasina was ousted in an election by her bitter rival, Khaleda Zia, the widow of Ziaur Rahman, a general who ruled Bangladesh not long after Mujib's death and who was also killed by a group of rebellious army officers. The case fell into legal limbo...
...Interior Ministry. He says the roots of the current difficulties can be traced to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when police officers went into the private sector en masse, fed up with low pay, corruption and the brazen violence sweeping the country. He estimates that 100,000 officers left the profession each year from 1991 to 2004 nationwide. "There are very few people anymore who work as police officers because it is their calling," Gurov says...
...every Irish-Catholic native of the Bronx with some semblance of ancestral pride, I was plenty peeved about the astounding screwing the Irish soccer team received this week during their World Cup qualifying match against France, when French "superstar" (and 2005 TIME European hero) Thierry Henry illegally used his left hand to corral a ball before passing it onto a teammate for the goal that sent France to the World Cup, and the underdog Irishmen home...