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...Murad firmly dismisses widespread allegations that his own group has collaborated with regional terrorist body Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.)?al-Qaeda's main offshoot in Southeast Asia?or allowed it to train in areas under M.I.L.F. control: "We have had no link with Jemaah Islamiah." But he admits that plenty of non-Philippine radicals have visited M.I.L.F. camps in the past?especially before Sept. 11, 2001?including Indonesian explosives expert Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who was killed a year ago in a shootout with government troops in the city of Cotabato. (Murad says al-Ghozi's J.I. connections weren't known...
...other aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament. The bill, however, specifies that the human rights of North Koreans should be "a key element in future negotiations." Diplomats participating in the six-nation talks?which include South Korea and China, a Pyongyang ally?have so far been careful not to link human rights to disarmament, because North Korea's representatives would probably storm out. Nevertheless, some American politicians find the U.S. bargaining position increasingly unconscionable. "Are we prepared to tell the North Korean people to give up their dreams of freedom because, in the interest of the status...
HEALTH: A possible link between prenatal flu and schizophrenia...
That doesn't mean that the link between influenza and schizophrenia is airtight. "It's really important to duplicate these results," says Dr. Alan Brown, a psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City, who led the study. But the new findings fit a pattern that has been emerging since researchers noticed a spike in cases of schizophrenia among people born in Denmark in 1957 during a major flu epidemic...
...during pregnancy increase the risk of schizophrenia? No one knows. Perhaps the infection somehow damages the developing brain. Or the reason may have something to do with how influenza affects the mother's lungs, decreasing the amount of oxygen that can get to the fetus. But even if the link is real, it would account for just 14% of schizophrenia cases...