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...parliamentary commission will investigate claims by opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko that he was poisoned. Yushchenko, who is in a close race with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych for elections on Oct. 31, became ill on Sept. 6. Doctors at a Vienna clinic where he underwent tests could neither confirm nor rule out poisoning. Join the Club TURKEY Ankara moved a step closer to joining the E.U. as European Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen, following a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, announced that there were "no more obstacles" to the start of accession talks...
...officer on the scene, who deferred official comment to Pasquarello, told The Crimson Saturday night that he believed the suspect was intoxicated at the time of the shooting, but Pasquarello could not confirm that fact...
...studies documenting the increased risk of suicidality should not be dismissed, but instead be given serious consideration as has been the case thus far. In fact, further studies should be conducted to confirm the exact risks of these antidepressants, as well as their efficacy, which has come under fire as of late. What is missing, though, is perspective, and with it calm and specific deliberation. It is only disruptive to harp on the dangers of antidepressants when they have mended—saved—innumerable lives in the past. Nor is it constructive in any way to sloppily cover...
Election officials confirm the need for this kind of support. Tom Leach, a spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections, said to the New York Times in August, “Training your poll workers gets harder every election. We’re laying more and more on the judges, and they’re not professionals, they’re senior citizens and housewives...
...avian flu's deadly H5N1 strain claimed its 20th victim in Vietnam? The Vietnamese government doesn't appear particularly eager to know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type...