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With fears of the unchecked spread of swine flu sweeping the nation, a recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health may give some insight into tackling the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S.—smoking. Majid Ezzati, an associate professor at the School of Public Health and one of the primary authors of the study—which concluded that smoking causes more premature deaths than other risk factors like high blood pressure or being overweight—said he was surprised by the “magnitude” of the problem...
...Reformist activists say their unofficial polling show that Khatami would beat Ahmadinejad by a two-to-one margin. "The surveys may show great support for Khatami," says Majid Hosseini, a political analyst in the camp of the Tehran mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, "but the reformists are ignoring an important factor: our surveys show that those supporters won't actually show up at the polls to vote. They won't participate, because they have already been through this scenario for two terms and nothing happened...
...November 2007 and rescued by anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. It's not known if al-Zaidi has any political affiliation with al-Sadr's group. His employer has demanded his immediate release, but according to the Prime Minister's media adviser, Yasid Majid, al-Zaidi will be charged with insulting the Iraqi state and sent to trial...
...Anwar. "But I don't think the public will be so gullible to believe this accusation. I've had senior politicians tell me that people are angry, that the government has lost all credibility by doing this." That's certainly what Anwar's supporters believe, including office worker Hanifah Majid, who showed her solidarity by bringing her sleeping children with her to the lobby of a hotel where Anwar was strategizing his defense well past midnight. Still, it's not yet clear how parliamentarians who were tempted to join the opposition will react to the sodomy accusation. Already, Anwar...
...Majid Khan, 27, a former suburban-Baltimore high school student, was seized by authorities in Pakistan. He then spent over three years in a secret overseas CIA "black site" before being transferred to Guantnamo. Also transferred was reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who allegedly ordered Khan to research attacks on American reservoirs and gas stations...