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...lactation may also change breast tissue by building antibodies that help prevent cells from becoming cancerous. The fewer pregnancies a woman has, the less this modification occurs. "[In India] what was protecting women in the past was that they had many children," says Dr. Vinod Raina, an oncologist in Delhi. Other researchers go even further, venturing to put a number on that claim. "Reproductive changes explain about 30% to 40% of breast-cancer threat," says Dr. Wei Zheng, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...
...With reporting by Maithili Chakravarthy/New Delhi, Hanna Kite/Hong Kong, Jeffrey Kluger/Budapest, Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Dolly Mascarenas/Mexico City, Amany Radwan/Cairo, Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta, Michiko Toyama/Tokyo, Jennifer Veale/Seoul, Isabel Vincent/Rio de Janeiro, Jane Walker/Madrid and Jodi Xu/Beijin
...deep-water exploration blocks off the Rakhine coast. It is also searching for gas in two other blocks. Access to Burma's resources will help boost India's power supplies but it is important for geopolitical reasons as well. The new production deal comes only months after Beijing beat Delhi on securing a deal to build a pipeline through to Burma's gas fields. The race for resources has helped make Burma the frontline in a larger struggle for influence in Southeast Asia. The threat of unfettered Chinese influence in Burma is one of Delhi's main ripostes when Western...
...Delhi's strategy is threefold. Its initial overtures to Burma's military leaders came as India faced a growing insurgency in its northeast. Many of the rebel groups in that region are based and train across the border in Burma. As India has grown friendlier with Burma's generals the two countries have worked together - with some limited success - on eradicating the northeastern insurgents...
...expect to hear Delhi start shouting any time soon. "We have already reacted with a statement and that's all we have to say," an Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesman told TIME two days after his minister's only four sentences on the crisis. "We are monitoring the situation and if the situation develops we will act appropriately. But I can't get as to when...