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...Friday that the Congressman has taken a polygraph administered by expert Barry D. Colvert, formerly with the FBI, would soothe critics. Condit, said his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, had truthfully answered no to the only questions that mattered: Did he have anything to do with Levy's disappearance? Did he harm her or cause anyone else to? Does he know where she is? But neither police nor the Levys were satisfied. Assistant D.C. police chief Terrance Gainer dubbed the test "self-serving...
...comes word that breast self-exams may not be so helpful after all. After reviewing eight major studies, a Canadian task force has concluded that there is little evidence that the technique saves lives. Indeed, the data the group looked at suggest that breast self-exams can do more harm than good, prompting unnecessary testing of what are in fact normal lumps. The task force's recommendation: women should no longer be routinely taught how to screen themselves for breast cancer...
...cause a pulmonary embolism, an obstruction that can prove fatal. The Slater & Gordon case goes to the heart of the issue: to be successful, the firm must show the airlines both knew the risks and gave insufficient warning. "We are talking about a real risk with real and appreciable harm," says Henderson. "It's a small risk and easy to reduce by taking some fairly simple steps, which are not very expensive for airlines to do. And yet if they do not do it, you might...
...Western security alliance's overriding concern throughout its tenure as the Balkan constabulary has been the safety of its own personnel. And in a mean frontier town, a sheriff whose priority is keeping out of harm's way is always in danger of being ineffective - or worse. NATO feared that aggressive peacekeeping and enforcement would provoke attacks on its troops not only in Macedonia but back in Kosovo; by dithering - and legitimizing the rebels by pushing the Macedonian government reluctantly into cease-fire agreements - it has all but ensured the territorial divisions it desperately wanted to prevent...
...terraforming (as scientists call it) a neighboring world is not the only exit strategy. Donald Korycansky of the University of California at Santa Cruz and his collaborators suggest that Earth could be edged out of harm's way with a gravitational slingshot, a trick long used to boost the speed of planetary probes. Earth would be the spacecraft, grabbing orbital energy from a passing asteroid. That would increase Earth's speed and enlarge its orbit. Repeated every few thousand years, Korycansky & Co. reckon, such flybys could stretch Earth's habitable lifetime by billions of years...