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...have been greater because it was Brabeck's second try. Two years ago, he was within half an hour of the top when it began to snow heavily. To the surprise of his guide, Brabeck insisted on turning back. Even though he says his life wasn't in danger, "the risk was too high for the responsibility I have...
...other stem-cell therapies, which make use of bone marrow or--more controversially in the U.S.--the blood of human embryos, Fulga believes the procedure patented by TheraVitae is simpler, safer and less invasive. "The patient is effectively treating himself with his own blood, so there is very little danger of rejection," says Fulga, an ophthalmologist. "It's the safest kind of stem cell...
...Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Citi. "If you were to see one of those scenarios play out, that would be a big additional shock. The consequences could be quite dire." True enough. But for now, the greater threat to the global economy remains more prosaic: the real and present danger that battered U.S. consumers will renounce their profligate ways and put away their wallets...
Vaccines, like any drug, do carry some risk - but in healthy children, that risk is minute. A very small number of immunized children will have an allergic reaction to the vaccine, sometimes so severe it kills them. The trouble is that people are very bad at translating the practical danger from such miniscule statistical risks. Most people, given the choice to vaccinate their kids and run a tiny risk of an allergic reaction, or not to vaccinate their kids and - as in the case of polio - face a risk of contracting a crippling, sometimes lethal disease, can't figure...
...there's little real danger of extremists coming to power, no matter what happens to Musharraf. The Pakistani army is still largely secular. The main political parties--Bhutto's PPP and Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League--are moderate. But continued U.S. support for an unpopular Musharraf may complicate Washington's relations with any future civilian government. Pakistanis see Musharraf as America's man and regard U.S. calls for democracy as insincere. "Musharraf is an enemy of Pakistan," says Akhtar Qazi, a 71-year-old retired schoolteacher with anger to match her brightly hennaed hair. "We sacrificed our lives for Pakistan...