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...that their blood has been rejected because it tested positive for various diseases, chief among them hepatitis, an infection of the liver. Cynics say no good deed goes unpunished, but this turn of events could be a blessing in disguise. Hepatitis treatments have progressed rapidly in recent years. To avail yourself of them, you first have to know what you're infected with...
...containing his operations through cooperation with Arab intelligence agencies to foil planned attacks and round up and prosecute the perpetrators of the embassy bombings. Washington also sought to use Pakistan's close relationship with the Taliban to press Bin Laden's hosts into extraditing him, but to no avail...
...insisting on Bin Laden's innocence appeared defensive. The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan hinted Wednesday that the movement would consider extraditing Bin Laden after weighing the evidence against him, but they made a similar promise after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings to no avail. Still, the missiles that exploded in the Afghan capital Kabul overnight Tuesday turned out to have come not from the U.S. but from the Taliban's domestic foes, as part of that country's ongoing civil...
...solicit. The vast majority of undergraduates have had no contact with Summers, nor will they unless he chooses to start hosting events that are made public in advance and open to any student who wants to attend. Taking an accurate pulse of the University will require that Summers avail himself to the student body as a whole; this is something...
...think they'd be allowed some peace--the womb--with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music and voices to the unborn baby, the better to stimulate the growing brain and get it ready for the work it will eventually have to do. Parents who don't avail themselves of these products do so at their children's peril: the brain, they are told, has very limited windows for learning certain skills. Let them close, and kids may be set back forever...