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...first learned of the withdrawal when a State Department official called him for an explanation. Asked about the timing, a spokesman for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs corrected the statement about Moratinos, noting that the minister was up to date on the resolution, but said he could not confirm or deny the Dezcallar report...
Published on Mar. 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the study aimed to confirm data in decades-old literature that examined the relationship between blood type and a variety of cancers...
...would like to expand the [test subjects] into a much larger number and confirm that these results are really true,” Wolpin said. “If we could do that then we could delve into whether it is the exact ABO gene or a nearby gene...
Assuaging thousands of officers who are losing their jobs may take more saber-rattling in the name of national security. The earlier talk emanating from Moscow of using Latin American air bases for long range Russian bombers (which governments in the region could not confirm) may have been part of the strategy. Medvedev may also take next month's G20 Summit in London to talk tough when he meets with Barack Obama. There is much to bluster about: the proposed missile defense shield to be based in the Czech Republic and Poland; Russian assistance to Iran's nuclear program...
...media coverage of the presidential election: The 2008 presidential election seemed to confirm that cable news had become "the primary television platform of American political discourse." The medium's audience grew 38% last year alone, with profits rising by a third (though such gains were described as "ephemeral" in that most evaporated after Nov. 4). But this 24/7 model did have one lasting effect: according to the report, it fostered an atmosphere of accelerated journalist judgment, daily campaign briefings, partisan spin doctors, "deliberately coarse and provocative" content and political "tweeting." Bit by bit, the authors write, "the line between unfiltered...