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...future health problems. A substantial fraction of chubby kids, for example, have elevated levels of LDL cholesterol, putting them at risk for atherosclerosis. Many also have elevated blood-sugar levels, a precursor of Type 2 diabetes. Around the world, the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, is soaring in the under-18 crowd. As a result, complications like nerve and eye damage, which typically take years to develop, are suddenly popping up among people in their...
...them were not Baathists, but as Iraq expert Professor Juan Cole, of the University of Michigan, notes, the Sunnis enjoyed a privileged status under Baathist rule equivalent to that of white South Africans under apartheid - the state always rewarded them with a disproportionate allocation of resources and opportunities. The onset of democracy in Iraq, where Shiites compose two thirds of the population and even Kurds outnumber the Sunni Arabs almost two-to-one would almost certainly erode their position of comparative privilege...
...along the way, and the load is likely to get even heavier. Like President Clinton before him, President Bush may have already created the expectation among the Israelis (and soon, no doubt, among the Palestinians, too) that Washington will give them a hearing whenever they need one. But the onset of the Fall marks the beginning of the next U.S. presidential election season, which according to conventional wisdom is not a great time to be micromanaging a painfully tough and complex peace process. And that may be exactly where this is heading. After all, the Fall also brings the three...
Palestinian doctors who work at Hadassah face an agonizing choice. Ratrout, who was raised in Nablus, the big Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, first came to the hospital in the 1990s after attending medical school at Baghdad University. Following the onset of Palestinian self-rule, Palestinian health-ministry officials pressured her into working in the West Bank, where there is an acute shortage of trained staff. During the height of fighting a year ago in the West Bank, Ratrout worked for weeks around the clock in a government hospital in Ramallah. But she eventually decided to return...
...With the onset of Palestinian self-rule in 1994, relations between Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., and Abbas, secretary-general of its executive committee, became further strained. After a dispute that year about the terms of a second peace agreement, Abbas headed to his Qatar home, refused to talk to Arafat and didn't return to the West Bank for months. Tension between the two rose again this past year, say senior officials in the Fatah faction of the P.L.O. to which Abbas and Arafat belong. Abbas, they say, lost faith in Arafat when he didn't respond to Abbas...