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...connection between the chemical and autism, since symptoms typically appear around age 2, by which time babies have already received a fair number of vaccines. That link could be merely temporal, of course; babies also get their first teeth after they get their first vaccines, but that doesn't mean one causes the other...
...agreement doesn't mean Lebanon is out of the woods. For real stability to take root, the foreign countries fighting for regional supremacy in the cold war for the Middle East will have to stop using Lebanon as a battlefield. On the one hand, Syria could use Hizballah's political and military victory to work its way back into dominance over Lebanon, which Syria occupied until 2005. Hizballah's strengthened government role will help Syria get the new Lebanese government to scupper plans for a U.N. tribunal to investigate the assassinations of a series of anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians...
...health care expenses rise and entitlement programs grow fiscally strapped - at least one part of Medicare is now expected to be bankrupt by 2019 - more and more academics have called for this approach to be reconsidered, and for cost to become a factor. Such a move would mean that "if the incremental cost of a new technology was more than the threshold," Zenios says, "then the recommendation would be that Medicare not cover that new technology...
...still does today. She likened the environment to “making a mess in the dark” and “a bubbling of creativity.” But Paulus said that maintaining such an environment at Harvard “doesn’t mean that theater can’t have the best of both worlds,” providing institutional support while also allowing creative free reign. She said she will aim to make the A.R.T. more accessible to undergraduates and to give “guidance to those students who are hungry for more...
...Word that Kennedy may have suffered one or possibly two seizures does not necessarily mean that he did not have a stroke. Seizures sometimes occur immediately after a stroke. Even people who have recovered from a stroke are more likely than folks who have never had a stroke to experience a seizure at some point in the following year...