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...according to a report in The Crimson last week, ice cream sales in the Square have decreased titanically with the onset of winter. When the going got tough, it seems, Harvard students found something better to do than feed themselves on delicious ice cream...
...Since the Prime Minister first committed British troops to Iraq, that scenario has seemed increasingly likely. The adventure cost him support in the party and trust among voters - nearly 20 percentage points since 2001. The onset of arrhythmia and family pressures contributed to what Westminster insiders diagnosed as a "wobble" in late 2003. Over yet another dinner with Brown, this one given by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Blair is alleged by more than one source to have renewed his offer to resign. He denies this and has vowed to serve a full third term if Labour is re-elected...
...completing the Oslo process is, to put it mildly, not exactly what Ariel Sharon has in mind. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister resurrected his political career and eventually won the prime minister's job - an outcome unthinkable even in his own party until it became inevitable following the onset of the September 2000 intifada - by leading an aggressive campaign against the Oslo process. Yasser Arafat was widely pilloried in the U.S. for rejecting what was offered at Camp David by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It is worth noting, however, that Sharon was, if anything, far more vehement...
...condition is no longer considered terminal. Thanks to a controversial new therapy, he may become the first known survivor of a disease that has killed 147 Britons since 1995. After the diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease which produces similar brain lesions in sheep as VCJD does in humans. The drug was not licensed for human use in Britain - and doctors were un-willing to test it on Simms until Don secured the High Court's permission in late 2002. Within months Simms...
Whatever the causes of hypertension, doctors have been pretty clear about what its yard markers are. A reading of 120/80 or below is considered normal; 140/90 marks the onset of hypertension; 160/100 is Stage 2 hypertension; 220/120 is the onset of what is known as malignant hypertension, pressure so high that fluid is squeezed from vessels into the brain and blood leaks out of capillaries into the liquid that fills the eyeballs. "Malignant hypertension is a medical emergency," says cardiologist Richard Devereux of Cornell University Medical College...