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...Lancet found that drinking caused more than half of the deaths among adult Russians between 1990 and 2001, in the unstable years following the collapse of the Soviet Union. That study of some 60,000 residents in three Russian cities found excess mortality (i.e., a larger than expected number of people dying from a certain disease) not only with obvious alcohol-related illnesses such as liver cancer but also tuberculosis and pneumonia, which the study's authors say may be partly a result of weak immunity caused by excessive alcohol consumption. (Read "Nation o' Drinkers: Scotland Takes On Alcohol Abuse...
...sure how many people would show up. Some of his supporters may well have resigned themselves to defeat--until Ahmadinejad's victory speech, in which he compared the protesters to fans upset about losing a soccer match and called them a minority of "twigs and mote." A number of people I talked to at the pro-Mousavi march on Revolution Avenue cited the President's comments as reason to keep up the fight. "What he said drove me crazy," said a 26-year-old mechanic from Hashemiye, in south Tehran...
...Pagano stepped to the microphone, welcomed the crowd of about 175 and summarized the ground rules. "All arms are to be holstered," he said. "It's a cold-range carry as a show of support for the Second Amendment and First Amendment." He repeated a number of the talking points that he's honed while being interviewed by journalists from Australia to Ireland: pacifism is optional for Christians; society faces more risks from texting and Twittering drivers on the highway than from guns; and "we're not doing anything illegal, immoral or unconstitutional, so why apologize?" He promised to keep...
Today the Sepah is estimated to have 125,000 forces, while the Basij - which by Imam Khomeini's initial intentions was to comprise "20 million" - is estimated to number up to 6 million and is active in most cities, towns and villages across Iran. The majority of Basijis are involved in volunteer services at mosques...
...international peacekeeping force there, with 3,700 German troops serving in Kabul and in northern Afghanistan, around Mazar-e-Sharif, where Germany heads the northern regional command. More German soldiers are now being sent to Afghanistan in the run-up to the elections in August, bringing the total number to 4,200 by late summer. There are also plans to send 300 more German troops to the country to help support NATO's deployment of surveillance aircraft...