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...While the conflict has always been something of a low-intensity guerrilla war, recent news reports from the region confirm that Taliban militants have begun to advance into a key region just 60 miles from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. A temporary peace agreement has stopped the worst of the fighting, but the insurgency is clearly an existential threat to the Pakistani government, which has been relatively cooperative with the U.S. to root out terrorists in the region. As such, given the critical security situation in Pakistan and the region as a whole—Islamabad also controls...
...These findings won't be music to the ears of Sam Harris or fans of his best seller The End of Faith. But they do confirm that a stubborn, insistent strain of religiosity continues to infuse Americans - even those who claim they've left organized religion behind...
...treatment sounds harsh, but the findings confirm what many pediatric dermatologists have seen anecdotally for years. The theory is that the antimicrobial properties of bleach help relieve symptoms of eczema not by acting directly on that skin condition, but by improving children's skin infections of staph bacteria - a common co-occurrence that exacerbates the irritating symptoms of eczema...
...clear where all that money will come from. Japan has pledged $100 billion. Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister who hosted the G-20 summit, said the European Union would put up $100 billion and that China would provide $40 billion. But Chinese officials wouldn't confirm that amount - and even if the money is forthcoming, it still leaves $260 billion unaccounted for. At a time when governments are financially overstretched, that's no small sum. Moreover, the thorny issues involved in reforming the IMF's governance structure have been kicked back to the organization; the G-20 simply said...
...each person was treated with radiation, similar to the regimen that cancer patients receive, in order to destroy the immune system. Afterward, each patient received his own stem cells back by injection. The scientists traced blood levels of a protein, C-peptide, that beta cells produce, in order to confirm that whatever remaining beta cells the patient had were now able to grow again and repopulate the pancreas - and produce insulin. Sure enough, levels of C-peptide rose in 20 of the 23 patients; 12 were able to stay off insulin therapy for three years, and eight needed only intermittent...