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...powerless to act against militants as long as Israeli troops remain inside Palestinian towns and cities and assassinate suspected terrorists. Israel, however, believes such operations are vital to its own security, and may be loathe to end them - particularly when it's a safe bet that the onset of any renewed negotiations will almost certainly bring new terror attacks inside Israel, the gruesome veto typically deployed by Palestinian radicals to negate previous cease-fire efforts...
...without income and no reliable food distribution system to replace the official rationing system that existed before the war - looting and criminal violence has slowed the deliver of aid - and the situation of many ordinary Iraqis borders on desperate. And likely to become even more so if, with the onset of summer and its daytime temperatures typically above 100 degrees, the electricity supply is unable to support refrigerators and air conditioners...
...Most alarming, though, is the rising fatality rate. During SARS' international onset some two months ago, when doctors had only a handful of cases to examine, the mortality rate was thought to be about 5%?scary, but not exactly on the scale of Ebola. What's more, those most at risk were typically the elderly and the chronically ill. But as the cases have piled up, so have the fatalities, including healthier individuals in their late 20s or early 30s. In Vietnam the death rate is around 8%, Singapore at nearly 12% and Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled...
...With the onset of the First World War, he added: “the first hour has already sounded.” This apocalyptic “dissolution,” which the artist foresaw in painterly terms as “explosions, patches that violently collided, despairing lines, eruptions, rumblings, burstings,” speaks as clearly to a revolution in artistic form as it does to the initial “rumblings” of international catastrophe...
...reasons that are not entirely clear, diabetes triggers a wide range of health problems. Uncontrolled glucose levels increase the risk of blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage. On top of that, the 16 million Americans who have Type 2 (once known as adult-onset) diabetes are much more likely than the general population to develop high blood pressure, which increases their risk of heart disease and stroke. Indeed, high blood pressure appears to be even more damaging in diabetics than in nondiabetics. And yet, says Dr. Vincenza Snow of the ACP, "we found that blood pressure was being slightly overlooked...