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...Lalu to his energetic supporters in the poor northern state of Bihar, Yadav is a controversial figure. He is adored by millions as a man of the people because he is of a lower caste - a rarity among politicians. Yet he is routinely vilified by his many detractors who claim his term as Chief Minister of Bihar was characterized by mismanagement and corruption. When he became Rail Minister in 2004, Yadav asked Kumar and his team to run the system on sounder business principles, even as it stuck to what Kumar calls IR's "social obligations" to its passengers...
...million supporters thronged the streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers have put that number, by the most generous estimates, at 300,000. Most egregious however, are her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. Her claim to have heard the faint cries of "Jeay Bhutto" - "Long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of cheap political mythmaking...
Harvard Medical School professor Douglas P. Kiel is facing a lawsuit because of an article he published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). In the study, Kiel, a gerontologist, said that hip protectors are not effective in preventing injuries among elderly patients, a claim challenged by HipSaver, a popular hip protector manufacturer, in a suit filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Feb. 15. Representatives for HipSaver accuse Kiel of deliberately using one particular type of hip protector that is inferior to many of the protectors on the market and concluding that all hip protectors...
...this idea of God as a woman,” Nagy recalls. Although Nagy made clear that she wasn’t interested, the pair persisted in their preaching before finally relenting.Samantha G. Barnard ’09 was also approached in the Science Center by two people claiming to need student input for a class survey. “They stopped me and asked if I had heard of the gospel that mentioned God the Mother. They asked if I read the Bible, and if I believed in it. When I said no, that...
...Drug companies claim the review is still flawed, however. One massive problem: there are many more recent studies than those surveyed in the article, which looked only at pre-approval trials conducted before 1999. Nicholas Francis, a U.K. spokesman for Eli Lilly and Company, which produces Prozac, says that the new study "does not take into account that today more than 12,000 patients have participated in Prozac clinical trials and thousands of scientific papers have referenced Prozac, supporting its use in the treatment of depression." Some 50 million people worldwide have taken Prozac, and in a company statement Lilly...