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...Beijing appears to be trying hard not to let ethnic turmoil metastasize. The Chinese press did not report news of the clashes until Monday evening, when a brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into...
...brief speech, Bush called on a polarized electorate to unite behind...
...campaign of John F. Kerry, the Democratic challenger, did not concede the election, and in a brief address to supporters in Boston’s Copley Square early this morning, vice presidential candidate John Edwards vowed to “fight for every vote...
...Drugs like Ambien get you to sleep," says Jacobs, "but they don't get at stress and anxiety, which are often the underlying cause of insomnia." Once you're off the drug, insomnia usually returns with a vengeance. In his placebo control study, a brief course of CBT, lasting about 2.5 hours over six weeks, showed no such problem...
...DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; after a brief illness; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide?s Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one model car barely moved while another, powered with his now-ubiquitous alkaline battery, raced round and round the company cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who ?took special pride around Christmas, when...