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...Abdulrazzak's experience of loss and return is shared by other prominent Iraqi artists abroad. "You're an exile when forced by the government to be ousted from your country," said Abdul Karim Kasid, a prominent Iraqi poet and dramatist also based in London. "Now we're not forced out by the government but by the situation...
...look at current literature on the subject, it suggests that overall energy balance - not just diet - plays a role in cancer recurrence," Gapstur says. And researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who ran the WHEL Study, are already planning to study how exercise and weight loss impact cancer prevention, according to co-author Rock...
...down the Potomac River, toward George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, accompanied by a delegation of European security experts, in town for a conference. A motorboat draped in banners that read "Equal Voting Rights for D.C." drifted up alongside the boat. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, found himself at a loss for words. "It was very difficult to explain to my European friends why the people who lived in the District of Columbia - the heart of our government - had no representation," Voinovich recalled at a Senate committee meeting last month. "The explanation I gave wasn't very well received...
...ruling coalition partner, the New Komeito Party, will drop enough seats to lose control of the Upper House. The coalition would still remain in charge, thanks to its huge majority in the more powerful Lower House, but an increasing number of LDP legislators have been hinting that a big loss could mean Abe's end. "If we lose elections, the LDP's head has always been made to take responsibility," former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told TIME. "So if we don't take the majority, someone has to take responsibility...
...mention that offsets are inherently dicey. The Tokyo show drew much of its electricity from an existing solar plant on the grid, but that meant that Tokyo homes and businesses normally supplied by solar would have needed to supplement their power from dirtier sources. That's a net loss for the environment. Many rock stars who sat out Live Earth felt the same way. "We're using enough power for ten houses just for lighting," Artic Monkeys' drummer Matt Helder told AFP. "It'd be a bit hypocritical [if we played...