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...prosthesis and held fast by a plastic sleeve or belt, or suction. The prostheses themselves might have gotten lighter and more flexible over the years, but the stumps' socket attachments have remained largely unchanged--and that's not good. It can be notoriously unstable and is prone to causing breakdown of soft tissues, as constant rubbing leads to pain and infection...
...West - whether Nazarbayev will pursue long-promised meaningful political reform and start delegating many of his unlimited powers to the Majilis, cabinet and the judiciary. The question now is whether his failure to do so will reverse the country's progress and lead it toward political stagnation and breakdown - the time-tested way that authoritarianism misfires...
...latest shakeup prompted serious worries in Washington, where President Bush phoned Maliki in an effort to salvage some sense of political progress in Baghdad despite an obvious breakdown. Maliki, though, seemed by comparison rather calm. And for good reason...
Civil society has not broken down to the extent that it did last year when rightist and leftist forces battled it out for control of the Zocalo and the University. But many fear that Oaxaca is once again inching toward some kind of breakdown. On Wednesday evening, Oaxaca's governor Ulises Ruiz urged calm, telling TIME that today's abortive bombs were simply aimed at disrupting the elections. "Oaxaca is not violent," he said, "not even with last year's events. That is not Oaxaca." He added, "The people responsible will be punished by the full weight...
Normally, urate levels are primarily controlled by diet, entering the body via the breakdown of a class of organic compounds known as purines. Alcohol, beans, red meat, and some citrus fruits are some examples of common foods that contain purines, according to Weisskopf...