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...Using other funds, researchers identified a gene defect that correlates smoking and bladder cancer. "If you have that defect and you smoke, there's a 100% chance you'll get cancer," says DuBois. But the hospital is more likely to get support for work on lung cancer, a much bigger problem. So call it research triage...
...Just hours later, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis attacked Obama for criticizing McCain and Palin. "So he attacks us while there's a hurricane going on and John McCain suspends his convention basically," Davis said in an interview with the Politico. "What bigger contrast can you have about putting your country first...
...Palin's youth is sure to make McCain's age (he turned 72 Friday) an even bigger issue than it has already been in the campaign, raising questions about whether she would be ready to take over the Oval Office if anything should happen to him. But Palin's op-eds highlight that her age - she's just 44 - is only one of several counterpoints she could offer to the youth-friendly Obama campaign. A newcomer to national politics herself, having risen from mayor of Wasilla (population 6,715) to governor of Alaska in 2006, she trumpets some...
...elite footballer, Lote Tuqiri, the Wallabies' granite-hard Fijian-born winger, has collided with players of all colors. The truth, he says, is that they all feel more or less the same. But, he adds, the Maori and Islander player "grows up with the sense that you're bigger than most of the people you play against. That puts a thing in your head that you're a powerful force, and you never quite lose that feeling. And you don't want to. You always want to intimidate with your physicality...
Rural communities in the valley would be better off if they developed themselves as destination spots. In particular, a healthy and accessible Jordan River (much of its banks on the Israeli side are in a restricted military zone) could be a much bigger draw for pilgrims visiting holy sites. FOEME and Yale University architects have developed a showcase ecotourism project: a Peace Park on an island in the middle of the river, where Jordanians and Israelis may one day meet without passports or visas. The Peace Park would also be a concrete way of fighting the mistrust that pushes countries...