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...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...
...difficulty explaining why, exactly, his assertion wasn’t true. “For one thing, Jews aren’t part of some kind of centralized organization,” I said. “We don’t all have some kind of Jewish leader who tells us what to do, so I don’t think we would ever do anything as ‘all the Jews’ together.” I went on to explain that Jews are not unified by any one ethnicity, language, or even one faith, necessarily...
...Meghan L. O’Sullivan, a fellow at the Institute of Politics and a former deputy national security adviser to President Bush on Iraq and Afghanistan.Zebari, who previously spoke at Harvard in 1991 and 1998, said he decided to return to the University “to explain the situation in my country face-to-face with Harvard students, giving a perspective that is different from the media.”During the day, the foreign minister took a tour of the University and the Boston area.“My favorite part...
...with Nazi art procurer Alois Miedl, who bought art for Hermann Goering and others. "Everyone says Nathan Katz's sales were voluntary, that he collaborated," says Cees van Hoore, a reporter for the Haarlems Dagblad who broke the story of the Katz claim last week. "But no one can explain why Nathan fled to Switzerland. What would have happened if he hadn't sold them...
...dramatically on top of a sharp rock in the forested Carpathian mountains not far from the picturesque medieval Romanian town of Brasov, Bran Castle looks straight out of a fairy tale. But its beauty alone does not explain the fervor of the debate over its ownership. The myth-shrouded castle is also known as Dracula's Castle: according to legend, Vlad "The Impaler" Draculae, a local ruler known for his cruel torture methods (the story goes he liked to have his dinner while watching his opponents painfully die on a stake) used to inhabit Bran Castle. This, however, is merely...