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Amos's study included only a small number of nonsmokers, however; the European study, which included a larger sample, did find a slightly higher risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers with the genetic variants. That could explain some of the genetic risk that leads to lung cancer in the 10% of men and 20% of women who develop the disease every year despite never having...
...militias of his Shi'ite rivals to prosper - as well as the U.S.-paid Sunni militias that are now being integrated into the Iraqi police and army. He can reasonably argue that he is the one true Iraqi patriot, the Iraqi leader the Americans fear most. How else to explain the attack on his Mahdi Army while he was observing a unilateral cease-fire? Furthermore, like Hizballah in Lebanon after the Israeli invasion in 2006, the Mahdi Army can claim a victory by simply surviving an assault by an Iraqi government backed by the Americans. That is significant street cred...
...more than ever, such initiative is paramount. In 2002, bilingual education was banned, making it illegal to teach students in a language other than English. In its place, English-immersion was promoted, in which a student’s native language can be used only to help explain complex ideas. Although such a program may be viable in theory, when a child cannot understand the words on the whiteboard, he or she is unlikely to do well on standardized tests. A monolingual teacher can do little to help, and frustration may only exacerbate the situation. Bilingual teachers can help remove...
...street from Pinocchio’s, plotting his defense strategy when drunk students might send Molotov cocktails through his window on a Saturday night, Mayer has met with individual students, held a public forum, and, best of all, started a blog—harvarddining.blogspot.com—to explain menu changes and address students’ concerns on a daily basis...
...this helps to explain why he was named today as the 2008 winner of the Pritzker Prize, which at this point is something like the knighthood of architecture. It was always only a matter of time before the Pritzker Foundation said "Arise, Sir Jean" to Nouvel, 62, who for decades has been one of the most closely followed architects in the world. Born in Fumel, a town in southwestern France, to parents who were both schoolteachers, he was already famous within the profession by 1981, when he was just 35, which is youthful in architect years...