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...refused to play along. With strong U.S. backing, he beefed up Colombia's once dysfunctional military and started delivering body blows to the FARC. Last year was the guerrillas' most disastrous year ever. The rebels lost three of their top seven commanders (two were killed, one died of old age); but the most stunning coup was last summer's Entebbe-style army raid that outwitted the FARC and rescued 15 hostages, including three U.S. military contractors and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt...
...peace talks and eventually to help the FARC regain the status of legitimate war combatants, which the international community still refuses to confer on it. The strategy is partly the doing of Alfonso Cano, who was named the FARC's maximum leader last March following the death, at the age of 78, of Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the guerrillas' cunning but stubborn founding father. Though a hard-line Marxist, Cano, 60, who grew up in Bogota and attended a university there, "sees the world differently than Marulanda," says Carlos Jaramillo, a former government peace negotiator. "He has to make some changes...
When Nadya Suleman, 33, had her eight children at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, Calif., one medical guideline had already been broken. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a leading organization in the field of reproductive medicine, recommends that a woman under the age of 35 should have no more than two embryos implanted by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF). That limit was chosen, says Sean Tipton, director of public affairs for the society, in order to avoid multiple births through IVF that would expose both mother and offspring to significant health risks. This is merely...
...week and an increased risk of acute leukemia. Conversely, researchers concluded that subjects who ate vegetables and tofu regularly along with cured meats showed reduced risk for leukemia. The population-based case-control study, conducted in Taiwan, looked into the dietary habits of 515 subjects who ranged in age from two to 20 years-old. Researchers gathered data between 1997 and 2005. According to Professor of Medicine David C. Christiani, the chemical culprit is most likely the nitrites added during the curing and smoking process. These chemicals transform into N-nitroso compounds—which are known carcinogens?...
...think President Obama is doing so far? (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...