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...experts." In the three days following the Oklahoma City bombing, there were 220 documented hate crimes against Muslims throughout the nation. Until it was shown that the bombing was concocted and carried out by homegrown white American boys, Muslims were harassed, taunted and beaten. So strong is the link between "terrorism" and "Muslim" in the American ethos...
...sufferers against several major airlines. Attorney Lars Lewis of Paris is taking legal action against four airlines for a thrombosis he claims he developed following a series of medium-haul flights across Europe. "Airlines aren't sufficiently informing passengers about the risks," he says. "There is a link between air travel and thrombosis...
...condition itself can be virtually impossible to track. Minor cases may produce no symptoms, while major complications such as pulmonary embolisms can show up weeks after the initial clotting. Immobility may certainly play a role, but to some experts the idea of a special link between aircraft and thrombosis simply isn't plausible: last year in Britain, a House of Lords report focusing on air travel and health issues tied DVT to sitting in a variety of cramped conditions, including cars and trains as well as airplanes...
...indicted Simatovic, and as recently as last month, he was still somewhere within Serbia's labyrinthine Ministry of Interior. But that doesn't make war-crimes-tribunal investigators any less eager to investigate him and his unit. Noted an investigator from the Hague: "Frenki's boys are a direct link between Slobodan Milosevic and war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo...
...patient programs tailored for athletes. When such a competitor also has a history of doping and drug use, the risk of addiction-and an unwillingness to recognize it as a severe problem-can complicate matters. "The continued use of drugs can, in the athlete's mind, constitute a link to the sporting past," says Cagni, himself a former French track champion. "Even after abuse is recognized as destructive, the psychological associations remain very hard to break down...