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...term kidney disease and may have only months to live, two U.S. officials familiar with the report told TIME. The agency ostensibly managed to get the names of some of the medications bin Laden is taking. One U.S. official familiar with the report, which came out between six and nine months ago, says it concluded, "Based on his current pharmaceutical intake, [we] would expect that he has no more than six to 18 months to live and impending kidney failure...
...Sadr City resident, Najim Kitam Kadem, head of a nine-person household that suffered two injuries during the fighting, says he is uneasy with the Iraqi troops now patrolling his streets. "The Iraqi army has done nothing good. They call you in the street, and if you don't hear them, they start jumping on you and they slap you in the face," he says...
...lead author and director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center. "There is no excuse." In one of the review's highlighted studies, among patients undergoing CT scans, 30% were on their third scan, 7% had five or more, and 4% had more than nine. Also to blame: doctors increasingly practicing defensive medicine. "There is an underlying philosophy that you're at fault if you miss anything," says Bullard. "The goal is to be perfect every time." Plus, he notes, CT scans have no immediate negative side effects. "They are quick, painless, and send patients away...
...Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law. "With its new blood the court is still developing new patterns of communication and cooperation." (Until Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito came along, the court had the longest-serving body of the same nine people in Supreme Court history.) Nevertheless, even with fewer nail-biting decisions handed down this term, Justice Kennedy has continued to play a dominant role - swing voter or not - preventing Roberts and fellow conservatives from dominating the court's decisions...
...intend to start anew.' LEE MYUNG BAK, President of South Korea, on replacing nine of 10 senior aides after dissent over his agreement to import beef from the U.S. triggered antigovernment demonstrations...