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...Britain, activist patients have joined together to create the Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT), a charity that maintains an informative website, iddtinternational.org IDDT contends that as many as 10% of insulin-dependent diabetics cannot tolerate synthetic insulin. The group offers lots of anecdotal evidence that animal insulin may be a better therapeutic option for some patients and argues that genetically engineered insulin was allowed on the market on the assumption--not evidence--of its superiority. IDDT says no long-term studies have been carried out to compare synthetic and animal insulins and cites a 2002 review by the prestigious Cochrane...
...immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic growth depends increasingly on immigration, creating more obstacles for immigrants may bear heavy costs in the future. And demonstrators who gathered on the weekend in France to protest the new immigration law, and in Britain at London's Trafalgar Square for a concert to show solidarity against the ever-bolder presence of the British Nationalist Party (bnp), indicated that even as an electoral strategy, a crackdown on immigrants can be risky. What's remarkable about the recent posturing is that it implies the already strict...
With Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution (Ecco; 475 pages), the indispensable Simon Schama (Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution) has taken a much trickier path. By choosing to tell the story of the thousands of escaped slaves who fought beside the British in the hope of securing their freedom, he effectively turns the American Revolution upside down. In Schama's book, it's the Crown that holds out the promise of liberty, the patriots who would take it away. As war approached, the British promised emancipation to any runaways who would join forces with...
...know that blacks were human. His nephew had fathered a child by a black woman. The child, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, lived with Mansfield and his wife. When war came, his much discussed decision in favor of the slave was taken by African Americans as another incentive to wish Britain well...
...Bush Administration's insistence that military action remains an option has alarmed some allies, but differences are evident on the diplomatic front, as well. Germany's new conservative Chancellor, with the support of Britain, has repeatedly urged the Bush Administration to hold direct talks with Iran, warning that there won't be a diplomatic solution unless the two key protagonists discuss their differences. "It's amazing that when we're in a bilateral position, or kind of just negotiating one on one, somehow the world ends up turning the tables on us," President Bush answered on April 10 in answer...