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Zainab is 40 days old and has spent her entire life at the Basra hospital. After all this time, her doctors think she just might pull through because she now weighs four and a half pounds. But even if she survives, her future is bleak. Zainab was born with underdeveloped limbs. Her mother Nazad says she knew the reason as soon as her newborn daughter was shown to her. "It is because my womb is poisoned," she said, rocking the tightly wrapped bundle of her child. "The baby became sick and came out early...
...Patriots did a masterful job, and the Rams never found their rhythm. It would be a lot less surprising to see the Buccaneers pull of the same Sunday. That's not to say by any means that the Raiders' offense is not just as dominating, but it's easier for an offense to have a bad day than a defense. The reason is simple: both units must recognize formations and assignments to succeed, but there are more checkpoints subject to variable in order to execute an offense -- footing, passing, catching -- than there are to run somebody over on the other...
Kennedy said the international community is right to demand further proof of weapons violations. “We must recognize that weapons inspectors are doing their job and doing it well,” he said. “There’s no need to pull the trigger...
...Vienna and decided not to report all this misbehavior to the U.N. Security Council for action. But last week Pyongyang raised the stakes even higher, and now the IAEA may have no choice. When President Kim Jong Il declared that North Korea would become the first nation ever to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and might test some new missiles as well, the pretense that this confrontation doesn't count as a crisis finally got stuffed in a drawer. IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei met with top U.S. officials and discussed whether to reconvene the IAEA Board...
...increase our knowledge of how the genome works, many beliefs about ourselves will indeed have to be rethought. But the worst fears of the genophobes are misplaced. It is easy to exaggerate the significance of behavioral genetics for our lives. For one thing, genes cannot pull the strings of behavior directly. Behavior is caused by the activity of the brain, and the most genes can do is affect its wiring, size, shape and sensitivity to hormones and other molecules. Among the brain circuits laid down by genes are the ones that reflect on memories, current circumstances and the anticipated consequences...