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...Most Tenuous Link to Comic Books: The Office. Each year Comic-Con gets further from its roots, as Hollywood brings more product for fans' appraisal. This year NBC had a panel and booth for The Office, which, while certainly a show with an alpha fan base, isn't really genre fare. Maybe Dunder Mifflin paper was used to print...
...Israeli police saw no link between the bulldozer attack - the second in the Holy City this month - and the visit of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Nor was Obama under any threat: His plane had not yet landed in Israel when the Arab construction worker gunned his machine out onto a main tourist thoroughfare in Jerusalem and slammed into five cars...
...April, that will allow the U.S. military to play a more active role in the nation's fight against drug trafficking. Bush, who headed the President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, said he was publicizing the order in an effort to make ''every American understand the very real link between drugs and terrorism.'' Bush charged that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was engaged in the drug trade and that the leftist guerrillas who waged a bloody assault on the Colombia Palace of Justice last year destroyed U.S. extradition requests for Colombia's most notorious narcotics traffickers. ''Now we must convey...
...cardiac surgery, Dr. Michael DeBakey pioneered techniques and devices that revolutionized his field, and still persist today. In 1932, while in medical school, DeBakey invented a pump that became a critical part of machines that later enabled open-heart surgery. He was one of the first to recognize the link between smoking and lung cancer, and he performed the first successful coronary bypass. An adamant perfectionist, DeBakey also provided medical advice to some of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, including President John F. Kennedy and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin...
Americans also need ways to shore up their retirement--particularly as traditional pensions disappear--and they need help stewarding the retirement money they receive. So one consortium of public-policy research groups is exploring ways to link retirees who get lump-sum 401(k) payouts with services to help them manage their money for the long term...