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...declined. In Baltimore, where we set The Wire, drug arrests have skyrocketed over the past three decades, yet in that same span, arrest rates for murder have gone from 80% and 90% to half that. Lost in an unwinnable drug war, a new generation of law officers is no longer capable of investigating crime properly, having learned only to make court pay by grabbing cheap, meaningless drug arrests off the nearest corner...
...While the fact that HT's risks may last longer than any woman would like, doctors stress that this risk is still very small. The overall risk of cancer, for instance, among women taking estrogen and progestin, comes to three extra cases per 1000 women per year. For breast cancer, the study found one extra case per 1000 women per year. "It's helpful to translate the findings into absolute cases," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "So for women who are having distressing menopausal symptoms, who are not sleeping...
...Manson also notes that at the time the study was being conducted, between 1993 and 1998, the estrogen and progestin preparations were not available in the lower doses that are used today, and that most women had been taking the hormones for longer than the one to two years that current guidelines recommend. (Researchers are planning to study the long-term risk-benefit profile of lower dose formulations and shorter exposure periods...
...that news, I have only this to say: Chipotle, my master, please don’t tarry any longer. I swear I will never again glance at any other burrito chain, especially not Qdoba. My wallet is yours—just let me in those doors...
...Although Israel appears to have chosen to withdraw its troops from Gaza because of Rice's visit, Hamas spun the Israeli pullout as "a victory" in what they now call the "Five Day War." The next war is sure to last longer, and its main casualty will be the U.S.-sponsored peace initiative...