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...wake of the Morecambe Bay tragedy, the British government has introduced new regulations to govern the gangmasters' trade. But in local Chinese communities, only a handful of leaders seem prepared to acknowledge the danger of the immigration racket. As Edward Murphy, the director of a refugee support charity in Liverpool explained, "There are four reasons people don't want to mess with these gangs: your limbs." One survivor of the cockle picker tragedy, Lin Guo, gave evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom as his family in China, who live in the same village as Lin Liang...
...viruses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that genital strains of HPV will infect over 50 percent of sexually active men and women at some point in their lives. Once someone is infected with the virus, he or she may remain asymptomatic or may develop genital warts. The greatest danger that HPV poses is that it may cause pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Pre-cancerous cervical changes (by far the most common among these four) can be detected by a pap smear; medical follow-up can ensure that pre-cancerous changes do not develop into...
Until recently, I had scoffed at these murder figures and presumed the danger in Boston to be grotesquely overblown—a fictionalized byproduct of the mass media’s relentless drive to bolster ratings through breaking news. How can Puritan Boston possibly be dangerous if its only notoriously disreputable district, the combat zone, no longer even exists...
...conclusions had already provided the researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute with hints that the heart-disease risk might apply unevenly, varying by age. And faced with growing concerns from menopausal women who depended on the hormones but were concerned about the danger, the investigators decided to take a second, closer look at the data. This time they teased the results apart more clearly into age groups. When they did, they found that the youngest of the women taking hormones weren't putting their hearts at risk so that there is a window of time, right around...
...prison in Afghanistan where Lindh was initially taken after his capture. Spann has declared publicly that he believes Lindh should have been given a life sentence, and that he should serve his full 20-year term. He argues that Lindh could and should have warned his son of the danger presented by the prison uprising, but did not. At his trial, Lindh claimed to have been unaware of the planned uprising...