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...half-truths and partisan intrigues." Her standing, however, has been hurt: according to the independent pollster Social Weather Stations, Arroyo's approval rating has dipped to 34%. Even an apparent industrial accident is redounding unfavorably on her. Although police initially announced that they had found traces of a compound used in military-grade explosives at the mall-blast site, they later attributed the explosion to a gas leak. But as the last bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage, an opposition senator - himself on trial for leading an attempted coup against Arroyo in 2003 - accused members of her Cabinet...
...took place in the White House residence; this was typical of Graham's visits over the years, which seldom took place in the Oval Office but often involved nights and weekends spent in the residence, Camp David or private presidential retreats like the Johnsons? Texas ranch or the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Me. Bush had invited Graham to visit him for lunch and dinner several times in the last two years, but Graham, who was hospitalized for two weeks this summer with intestinal bleeding, was unable to make the trip. He had long been reluctant to leave his Montreat...
...During this past summer, Pakistan wrestled with these issues in an intense and all-too-tragic way. In response to the excesses of an armed extremist movement based in an Islamic school, Pakistan’s military forces laid siege to the extremists’ compound. Following a series of dramatic, bloody battles, the complex was cleared, though at tremendous cost: approximately 350 dead and injured. In the weeks that followed, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t have a strong opinion on the incident and its ramifications. Yet amidst the many viewpoints...
...never a sure thing. And it's the same kind of variability that has made clinical research so problematic. "Even though people are very interested in herbal therapy and a lot of people take herbs, research in herbal therapy is difficult because you're dealing with a mixture of compounds," says Tripathy, who is now a clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. During the research phase, Tripathy says, scientists often attempt to isolate one particular molecule or compound from the herbal extract - and the anticancer activity is lost. "There are herbal...
...know the relief of Benadryl, since 1946 the cure for everything from rashes to runny noses. Its inventor, George Rieveschl, became a chemical engineer after failing to get a job as a commercial artist. In the 1940s, while researching muscle relaxants, he found that his two-part compound blocked itch-causing histamines. Unlike predecessors, Benadryl did not cause severe drowsiness. It made him millions. "It seemed like bad luck at the time," he said of the nosedive he took as an artist, "but it ended up working out pretty well...