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...largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority. Sponsored by George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Bank and the European Union, the program focuses on health, education, housing and employment. A major new survey of the region's Roma by the United Nations Development Program will serve as a benchmark. Soros told TIME that he is "very optimistic" about the initiative's potential impact. "It will vary by country, but the fact that it's a multi-country effort will put pressure on the laggards to also perform," he said...
...benchmark for U.S. withdrawal is the capacity of Iraqi security forces to defend the country, then the Iraqi government will have cause to challenge the direction being pursued by the U.S. in training and assembling those forces. Even in the most optimistic view, which says there are some 125,373 personnel fully or partially trained (the U.S. acknowledges that only about one-third are combat-ready), some 110,577 of those are police, national guard and border patrol units - dedicated primarily to dealing with domestic threats. Right now, according to the U.S. government's own figures, there are only...
...enough? A landmark study of more than 4,000 heart patients compared a standard LDL-lowering regimen (40 mg of Pravachol) with an intensive regimen (80 mg of Lipitor) and found that even though both reduced LDL levels to below the recommended benchmark of 100 mg/dL, the patients on the higher dose were 16% less likely than those on the lower dose to get worse or die. The bottom line: what was once thought to be a laudable treatment target may not be good enough. Even by the current standard, less than one-third of the 36 million Americans...
...adult is wrong for a preteen, to say nothing of a baby. A 2-year-old girl in the 50th percentile for height may have an average blood pressure of just 88/45. That same girl at age 10 should be up to 102/60, still far below the traditional adult benchmark of 120/80. The NHLBI now recommends making blood-pressure readings a part of all visits to the pediatrician. Any child who repeatedly scores in the 95th percentile or above for height, age and sex should be considered in danger...