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...Apparently, however, there are also limits to how much personal conviction a president can translate into public policy. On Wednesday, Sarkozy responded to Sebire's appeal by offering to convene a panel of specialists to see if all possible means have been exhausted in treating her rare disease, known as esthesioneuroblastoma. On Thursday, Sebire declined that offer, explaining the advancing tumors have left her blind and otherwise disabled, and that movement beyond her home involved considerable effort and assistance...
...findings may in the end offer more cost-saving potential - and raise more interesting questions - in developed nations, including the U.S., where medical costs have spiraled upward in the last two decades. Neither doctors nor patients may want to drop cholesterol testing altogether - more information is better, especially when the consequence of missing a diagnosis is heart attack - but there is still a practical lesson to be learned. "I think in the U.S. we might use this as an initial test," Gaziano says. "We can at least narrow the group of people for whom we need to screen cholesterol." Those...
After a near-perfect season in which the Harvard women’s hockey team tore through the best competition that its conference had to offer, the Crimson now takes its game to the national stage.No.1 Harvard faces off against the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green tomorrow afternoon at the Bright Hockey Center in the first round of the NCAA championship. The Crimson met few obstacles in its path to the NCAA tournament, finishing the season 31-1-0 overall and 20-0-0 in ECAC play. Averaging over 3.56 goals per game and only .91 against, Harvard left...
...more finely-tuned implementation program is expected to strengthen the E.U.'s bargaining position ahead of the final negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto agreement, which are to be finalized at a summit in Copenhagen next December. E.U. leaders added that they could even offer a 30% cut in emissions by 2020 if a workable international agreement is reached...
...Then there are the 35 Texas superdelegates. At last count, Clinton had 11, Obama had nine, 12 were undecided and another three are to be named later. All those numbers offer numerous possible outcomes; but nearly all of them are likely to make the delegate count tighter than a pair of Wranglers on an urban cowboy...