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...known as the Women's Health Initiative was abruptly halted in 2002 after researchers found that women who took estrogen and progestin to replace the hormones lost during menopause raised their risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. This year the National Institutes of Health shut down another arm of the study, one involving women who had had a hysterectomy and were taking estrogen therapy without progestin. It turns out that taking estrogen alone also raises a woman's risk of stroke and blood clots. There are benefits from taking estrogen--among them, better bone health and relief from...
...with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife and scissors--and no anesthetic. "The doctor told me that they save anesthetic for the battlefield," he recalls...
Lenovo is one of a small but growing number of Chinese firms that are trying to ease profit pressure at home through global acquisitions. Guangdong-based TCL last year bought the television arm (including the RCA brand) of French electronics giant Thomson. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to acquire the very English MG Rover and has already bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. Says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, of the dealmaking: "It's not a silly gamble, but it is high risk...
...next, in 1981; color in 1992. Today TCL is China's second biggest producer of mobile phones, and Li wants to become No. 1 in air conditioners. But competition remains fierce among Chinese electronics firms. To stay ahead, Li last year paid $560 million for control of the TV arm of the French consumer-products giant Thomson, which owned the RCA brand. The next step won't be easy. Thomson's TV operations lost $130 million last year, and Li acknowledges that RCA is known as "the TV that old people watch." In the third quarter of this year...
...says Fadna Haroun Abdelmamout, a recent refugee from a village near Kebkabiya. In late August the janjaweed came to her village. When she and her husband and brother attempted to stop them from stealing their camels, they were shot. Only Fadna survived, but the bullet scar on her left arm is a reminder. "I will never go back to my village," she says...