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Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama called the damage caused by Cyclone Tomas--which struck Fiji late on March 12 and lasted more than four days--"overwhelming." While only one death had been confirmed as of March 16, the full extent of the destruction caused by winds of up to 130 m.p.h. (209 km/h) was still being assessed. Australia and New Zealand quickly began to send aid to Fiji, which lies about 2,000 miles (3,220 km) northeast of Sydney...
...accepted his final assignment. Graves, best known as the implacable leader of TV's Mission: Impossible team from 1967 to '73, died March 14 at 83. Thus ended a 60-year career in which his flinty features, suitable for carving on Mount Rushmore, and his sonorous baritone made him one of the small screen's leading authority figures--an eminence he occasionally subverted in irreverent comedies like Airplane! and Men in Black...
...back-of-the-envelope calculations ... suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems ... your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years [are] 2.8 in a million ... Driving one of these suspect Toyotas raises your chances of dying in a car crash over the next two years from .01907% ... to .01935% ... It's not worth losing sleep over...
...Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush? ... If the bill is so unpopular that it must be passed long before Election Day, could there be a problem with the legislation? ... If you can't run on the strength of the laws you pass, then either you shouldn't be running or you shouldn't be passing...
Segal was one of 24 million people taking drugs to lower cholesterol in the U.S. that year. The workhorse of American medicine, statins - first sold in the U.S. in 1987 and marketed under brand names like Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor - are designed to clear away LDL cholesterol, the waxy buildup that can clog arteries and trigger heart attacks and strokes. Doctors say the majority of current statin users are healthy people who don't have heart disease but who, like Segal, simply have high cholesterol. Use among this group, known as the primary prevention population, has made these drugs one...