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Four of the patients were so ill, they died within the first week of the study. Others, says Schmidt, dropped out because they found it hard to stick to the no-sweets diet: "We didn't expect this to be such a big problem, but a considerable number of patients left the study because they were unable or unwilling to renounce soft drinks, chocolate...
...Expect the Raiders to “brush” aside the putrid Big Green, plunging Dartmouth into a season-long search...
...everyone is convinced that those concerns are real. "If you believe the media, this country is in a state of permanent civil war," says Dave Sinardet, a political scientist at the University of Antwerp. "This is more a crisis of government than of the country. I expect the parties to reach some sort of solution soon - as they have done in the past - and when everyone calms down, we should see all this talk about splits and independence evaporate...
...claims to have been the only member of the Belarus legislature to vote against the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, was elected to his third term as president. With his command of 84% of the vote and a tight leash on opposition parties, he has good reason to expect that he will remain president for life...
Almost five years into the Iraq war, there's every reason to expect that the grim Iraq scenarios presented this week by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will be largely similar to those that will be on the desk of the incoming U.S. President in January 2009. From what we were told this week, it appears likely that the next Administration will inherit an Iraq with nearly as many troops as were there in the summer...