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...December, when the Agriculture Ministry looked into the first reports of bird flu among fowl far to the east in Dogubeyazit, the press said that its inspectors failed to notify the Health Ministry of any risk. "Turkey ignored all the warnings," Erdal Safak, columnist at the mainstream daily Sabah, told Time. "The government wasted valuable time. There was no public awareness campaign, no precautions were taken along documented migration routes, and provincial vets were not adequately equipped." In the week that followed the Kocyigits' diagnosis, the who says, at least 16 other Turks in nine of the country...
...Alito's fate hangs not on his record, but on how he does in the Judiciary Committee hearings that opened Monday at noon in the Hart Senate office building. Democrats have mined Alito's writings and come up with what they say is strong evidence of someone outside the mainstream-a supporter of unchecked presidential powers, opponent of civil rights and threat to a woman's right to choose. Republicans insist Alito is a hardworking immigrant's son who is conservative but fair-and a nice guy to boot...
...Kennedy's oblique accusation of discrimination, a weakness the Democratic liberal is sure to try to exploit. Over the next few days, Alito will face a barrage of attacks against his past positions on presidential powers, privacy and civil rights, testing definitively just how sympathetic he is to mainstream America...
...Gaza evacuation, he asked Israeli President Moshe Katsav to dissolve the parliament and call for early elections to be held this March. Then he took an even bolder gamble: he bolted the Likud Party and built a new one, Kadima, (forward in Hebrew) on center ground. Sharon figured the mainstream had lost faith in both the give-no-quarter right and the peacenik ideology of the left. Labor voters seeking tough security and Likud voters ready for pragmatic solutions flocked to Kadima. So did high-profile luminaries from both parties, including a cluster of ranking Likud leaders and Labor...
...flax and hemp, are good additions to the diet but not so reliable as fish. They supply a short-chain compound (ALA) that the body must convert to long-chain DHA, and the efficiency of that conversion can vary. Some people don't do it well, and those eating mainstream diets top-heavy in the omega-6 fatty acids found in processed food and prepared meals are at a disadvantage because omega-6s interfere with the conversion of ALA to DHA. For vegetarians and vegans, there is one nonfish source of long-chain omega-3s: supplements made from algae. (Algae...