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There was a sense of d?j? vu surrounding the announcement by the U.S.'s National Institutes of Health (NIH) in March that it had called a halt to a major study of the health effects of long-term estrogen use. Wasn't it already known that hormone-replacement therapy, when administered for more than a couple of years, was a bad idea...
...demands which followed ranged from specific to general, as some called for a halt to layoffs and outsourcing, while others simply urged readers to “support the struggles of working people worldwide” in honor of International Workers’ Day. The flyer also demanded an increased dedication to health care benefits and financial aid for working-class students...
...just 22, but already toby has spent eight years in and out of institutions and jail. His life has been a hellish rollercoaster of heroin and crime, and doing time has done nothing to halt it. Today he's been back in court: too many missed appointments for a drug treatment program have put his bail at risk. But he's been given another chance, perhaps his last, and he knows it. "I've never had a better opportunity than I've got today," he says. "It makes you think people have faith...
...hereby offer [Europe] a peace treaty, the essence of which is our commitment to halt actions against any country that commits itself to refraining from attacking Muslims or intervening in their affairs." A VOICE SAID TO BE OSAMA BIN LADEN'S, which aired on Arab networks last week and gave European nations three months to consider his offer. Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain rejected the overture...
...than to travel down a dirt path to his religious seminary. He shuns all interviews with the press and refuses to meet with Iraq's American occupiers. Yet with one call last November, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani brought plans for an American transfer of power to a grinding halt. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last April, Sistani has gone from being a relatively unknown "quietist" in Najaf's Hawza seminary, preaching that Shi'ite clerics must stay out of politics, to becoming a political institution...