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...other panelists cited reasons for cautious optimism. Bilmes said progress was “conceivable” in northern Iraq, where the largely Kurdish population has announced a major oil deal...
...added that the geographical distribution of Iraq’s distinct ethnic and religious populations, as well as the uneven distribution of oil and water resources, impede any plan to divide Iraq...
...both at the Würzburg hospital, have been enrolling cancer patients in a Phase I clinical study of a most unexpected medication: fat. Their trial puts patients on a so-called ketogenic diet, which eliminates almost all carbohydrates, including sugar, and provides energy only from high-quality plant oils, such as hempseed and linseed oil, and protein from soy and animal products...
With much of Mexico worried about drug-cartel violence, the explosions that tore apart natural-gas and oil pipelines on Sept. 10 in the state of Veracruz caught many by surprise. The suspects? The leftist Popular Revolutionary Army, a once dormant group that staged a similar attack two months ago in the hopes of securing the freedom of a pair of its captured comrades...
...drive to take control of the streets, particularly Baghdad, in order to allow Iraq's elected politicians a safer environment in which to forge the vital compromises on issues ranging from reintegrating members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party into government and security structures to the sharing of oil revenues - in short, to negotiate their way to a stable power-sharing arrangement. That, quite simply, has not happened, nor is there any sign that it's likely to. The reason the politicians have failed to agree is not the violence on the streets; the violence itself is in most...