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...once, 2.5 weeks after its first case of infection; that tactic mitigated the outbreak and St. Louis fared better than 36 other communities as a result. Researchers compare layering interventions to layering Swiss cheese: if the holes are vulnerabilities, with enough layering you'll end up with a solid block of prevention...
...When the Duchifat Battalion was ordered on Monday to support the police in clearing out the settlers, 38 soldiers refused to obey. Using cellphones, the soldiers immediately called their rabbis for moral guidance. They also called their parents, who tried to block the soldiers' bus from leaving its base in the Jordan Valley. "It was not for this that my son joined the army," one father, Moshe Rosenfeld, told Israeli Army Radio...
Even members of other Shi'ite parties that form the dominant block in parliament routinely complain that they are shut out by the Prime Minister and his coterie. A faction of his own Dawa Party, led by his predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari, has begun quietly to seek a new Shi'ite-Kurdish alliance that would eject Maliki. And another former prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is trying to cobble together a secular-Sunni alliance that would put Allawi back...
...Another issue where Specter is supporting the President is immigration. Specter was the driving force behind last year's Senate passage of the immigration bill, only to see the Republican-controlled House block the measure. This week, with the legislation considered by most all but dead, Specter resurrected a bill and is rallying the 12 negotiators who worked on the legislation earlier this year to make a third effort to get it passed. "We ought to do something on it now, not sit on it for another period of years," he said...
...Specter has threatened the possibility of holding a Senate contempt "trial" if the White House continues to block Congressional attempts at obtaining documents and testimony over the attorneys, whom critics say lost their jobs for purely political reasons...