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...fact, there has been one case of cancer - in a French bulldog named Leon - according to a 2006 study in Veterinary Pathology. But it remains unclear whether the cancer was caused by a microchip or as the result of an injection, or who the maker of the chip was. The dog's tumor was removed in 2004, and a later examination found no recurrence. It seems that no one notified the FDA about Leon, but his case doesn't appear to worry the agency, as evident from a statement it issued when the AP brought Leon's story to light...
...countries that recognize Kosovo. Losing Kosovo, a vital locus of Serbian national feeling, may also radicalize Serbian politics and push moderate nationalists like Kostunica away from the E.U. and into Russian hands. "Serbia should not seek the company of those who support tearing a piece of our territory away," Leon Kojen, a former chief Serbian negotiator, told the Belgrade daily Politika. Russia's intransigence, meanwhile, is part of a general hardening of Moscow's stance on a range of issues affecting its border with E.U. and NATO member states. A forced resolution in Kosovo is bound to increase tensions between...
...1950s, Stanford psychologist Leon Festinger famously used the term cognitive dissonance to describe the discomfort we feel when our behaviors don't align with our beliefs. Festinger found that people will go to great lengths to reduce dissonance. In one well-known experiment, those who had been asked to falsely claim that a boring task--placing spools on a tray, for instance--was fun were later found to have persuaded themselves that the task really was fun. They had crossed over from hypocrisy to something more pathetic: self-deception. In this light, getting married, having kids and advancing conservatism looks...
...most games, the female is the one being rescued. But in Metroid, the main character was female. Is Nintendo trying to make games more appealing to female players? -Rosendo Leon, Vista, CaliforniaI wasn't the one who created Metroid, but I have long been interested in games with females playing the lead role and I think we will continue to see more. Nintendo doesn't try to focus on games that specifically appeal to females-we just try to create games with a universal appeal...
...Tony J. Leon, the former leader of the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition in South Africa’s Parliament, and Maralee Schwartz, the deputy business editor of The Washington Post, will join other prominent public servants at Harvard this September...