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...approved the first inhalable insulin, Pfizer's Exubera. Experts hope the user-friendly alternative to injections will get more diabetics to use insulin to help manage blood sugar and prevent complications...
Columnist Joe Klein argued that the Democrats are on the wrong side of the debate over the Bush Administration's eavesdropping on citizens without a court order [Jan. 16], but he misrepresents the situation. No one objects to wiretapping to prevent terrorism. It is the unchecked power to order surveillance that is worrisome. When the President can decide without oversight who the enemy is, there is nothing to prevent his spying on anyone he chooses. There is simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that...
...when they were sent - amid protest by environmental groups - for shipbreaking to a yard in northern England. Those ships are still there, awaiting British government permits for the scrapping to begin. Environmentalists believe they have found a cause they can win: using the Clemenceau as a precedent to prevent the dispatch of contaminated ships to the developing world. "For us, there is absolutely no ambiguity," says Yannick Jadot, director of campaigns for Greenpeace France. "The Basel Convention has clearly stated that whatever the legal status of the boat, from the moment it's being sent for demolition, it's waste...
...view is that China will never endorse serious economic measures against Iran because it needs oil and gas too badly. China has blocked Council action against Sudan because of its oil interests there, despite the genocide in Darfur. But I wonder. In this case, realists seek, above all, to prevent a military conflict in the wider Persian Gulf. That, given China's rapidly growing appetite for oil from the entire region - not just Iran - would be an economic nightmare for Beijing. China, a senior Western official believes, may well understand that anything short of stiff sanctions might make a military...
Frankly, we wouldn't want that guy lurking around our house either. YOKO ONO is raising a protest about Chapter 27, a movie starring JARED LETO as John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman. The Beatle's widow checked to see if she could prevent filming of the façade of the Dakota in New York City, the spot where Lennon was shot and where she still lives, but filmmakers obtained the necessary city permits and started work there last week. "She thinks the whole concept is terrible and offensive," says an Ono spokesman. "The filmmakers are fulfilling an assassin...