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...combination estrogen and progestin (Prempro)--because of an increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease. (Women with a uterus who want to try hormone therapy must take both hormones because estrogen alone increases the risk of uterine cancer.) Two years later, the estrogen-only (Premarin) part of the trial, which focused on nearly 11,000 postmenopausal women who had undergone a hysterectomy, was stopped because of a slightly greater risk of stroke--although there was no overall boost in heart disease. Preliminary evidence at the time suggested that estrogen did not increase the women's risk of breast cancer...
...operatives in Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh's extradition, but supporters fear that Hanoi is pushing for him to be returned for trial; a South Korean embassy official told TIME that Seoul is awaiting proof of Vietnam's accusations before it considers handing him over...
Harvard’s Mock Trial ‘A’ team landed second place in the annual American Mock Trial Association National Championship, losing to the University of Virginia by one point in a tie-break decision—the closest competition in league history. The eight-member team still managed to come home from the competition—which took place April 7-9—with more “All-American” awards for individual performance than any other team. At the final trial of the competition, the Harvard team prosecuted the kidnapper...
...administration is holding some suspects who clearly have joined terrorist conspiracies and might have been convicted and subjected to long prison terms, but whose prosecution has become impossible. A year ago, the CIA began openly fretting about the problem. What happens, it worried, when continuing to detain suspects without trial becomes politically untenable, but prosecuting them is precluded by the taint of coercive interrogation...
...position laid out in the first few minutes of closing arguments, which began March 13. "This is a case about a betrayal of trust, of corruption at the very highest levels of state government," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Levin, launching into a hours-long recounting of a trial that began on Sept. 19 and of a case that goes back roughly 13 years. "He might as well have put up a 'For Sale' sign over [his] office." Specifically, Ryan was found guilty of selling his office, both as secretary of state for eight years and later as the state...