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...Republican Congress has been tiptoeing toward this moment for months, becoming less reluctant to challenge Bush as his approval rating stays mired in the low 40s. G.O.P. lawmakers are getting more vocal in challenging Bush's spending priorities, and his modest budget cuts on programs from farm aid to housing to student loans are running into election-year resistance, even as the legislators complain about the costs of his Medicare prescription-drug program. On Friday the coalition of House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee sent a letter to the White House demanding more justification for Bush's spending...
Without fear, he lectures every week in front of full classes. Impressive for a stutterer. But Shell is modest. He points out other stutterers who have created their own success stories. Henry James. Marilyn Monroe. The guy who plays Darth Vader...
With all those caveats in mind, however, it seems clear that the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements are small for most women and probably fairly modest even for those at greatest risk of cancer or bone loss. In addition, the studies found that women who take extra calcium have a 17% greater risk of developing kidney stones...
...Those are scary numbers, but they're hardly the only frightening pandemic predictions circulating these days. Last month, two doctors in Minnesota published a modest paper in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. The authors point out that even in a weak pandemic there would be far fewer mechanical ventilators than the number of desperately ill flu patients who would need them to survive. "In this situation," they write, "triage of resources would be needed to offer 'the greatest good for the greatest number.'" That means that the very sick or the very old would probably be denied ventilator support?even...
...stunning backdrop to actors Orlando Bloom, Gérard Depardieu, Russell Crowe and Halle Berry, among others. Royal Air Maroc offers round-trip flights to Ouarzazate from most Moroccan cities, so it could be a day trip, but it might be more fun to stay on location at the modest Oscar Hotel, tel: (212) 44 88 22 12, where many an A-lister has sipped steamy mint teas...