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...Putin after his party's December 2007 success in legislative elections marred by accusations of corruption. "What a strange conception of international affairs when you'd criticize someone for his election victory, and the next day ask him to help you solve the crisis with Iran, with Darfur, and lower tensions in the world," Sarkozy told a January 2008 press conference when challenged on the call. "You consider it normal that I'd insult Mr. Putin by saying his victory was illegitimate, then ask the same illegitimate Putin to help solve the world's problems...
...worried enough that they're taking action. In early November, former conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin led a revolt in France's upper house of parliament by refusing to back Sarkozy's pet bill that would have ended a particular tax on businesses. Though Raffarin agrees with lower taxes in principle, he's been joined by two other former conservative leaders - and most of the 37,000-plus mayors of France - in ridiculing the idea of eliminating one of the main sources of income for regional and local governments before a more general reform of those bodies. Sarkozy risks...
...study, Wilson tracked the coffee consumption habits of 50,000 men ranging in age from their mid-50s to mid-70s, finding that men who regularly drank coffee over the 20-year span of the study developed advanced prostate cancer at a lower rate than non-coffee drinkers...
Subjects who reported consuming six or more cups of coffee every day were found to have a 60 percent lower chance of advanced or lethal prostate cancer than those who did not drink coffee. Both regular and decaffeinated coffee elicited the same results...
...have been shown to increase the risk of prostate cancer. Wilson said these findings added support to her belief that coffee itself—and not, for instance, the life style choices related to the drink—may be responsible for the link between coffee consumption and the lower risk of prostate cancer...