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...will hold their own renegade primary. It is a huge risk for the state G.O.P. They moved up the primary date without the blessing of Republican National Committee and will lose half their convention delegates for violating the rules. But there may be a big payoff: Wyoming could further confirm front-runner status for Mike Huckabee and give him momentum into the Jan. 8 primary in New Hampshire - or provide Mitt Romney with his first, if minor, stop of what might be a Huckabee steamroller...
...four business associates discussed Pakistan's future after their regular afternoon walk. "People are afraid to air their opinions but as far as I know America sent Benazir and later killed her with the help of Pervez Musharraf," says M.A. Mohamed, who runs a car parts company. "I can confirm this idea." His friend and colleague Talat Mumtaz interjects: "No, no. no, America likes Benazir. Why would they kill her? You're being ridiculous...
Emery Thompson’s study also helps confirm a hypothesis about why male chimpanzees prefer older females. Without menopause, older female chimpanzees are highly coveted since they have both the ability to reproduce and more experience as mothers...
Baker did not have access to her subjects' adult weights, so she could not confirm whether their heart-disease risk was influenced by adult obesity, but her study did show that those risks weren't nearly as high in kids who started out heavy at age 7, but lost the weight by 13. "If we could intervene in that period to help these children attain and maintain an appropriate weight for their age, we really could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease in the future," says Baker...
When Smith was later asked to confirm whether he had already extended an offer, he refused to answer definitively, saying only that it is “possibly” the case...