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...return for most of the captured land going back to the Arabs. But there came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never...
...Picante Sauce is a bit watery and a tiny bit sweeter than you would expect, considering there's no sugar. Still, eating them made me feel like a snack wimp. If I'm man enough to watch men tackle one another, I'm man enough to work a little partial hydrogenation through my arteries...
...1990s saw two significant changes in the pro-life campaigns, according to Smith. First, Smith said, members of those opposed to a right to abortion began to obstruct access to abortion clinics and killed a number of abortion-providers. Second, Smith said, protesters started the “ban partial-birth abortion” campaign. But despite increased protests, the courts largely protected abortion rights toward the end of the last decade. In 2003, however, Congress banned partial-birth abortions on the basis that they were not medically necessary. In reality, Smith said, these procedures safeguard against...
Trans fatty acids are a side product of the partial hydrogenation of plant oil. According to the National Academy of Sciences, “trans fatty acids are not essential and provide no known benefit to human health.” In fact, trans fats decrease levels of HDL ‘good’ cholesterol and increase levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol in the body. This directly increases a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke...
...Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results led him to give up partial custody of the boy and girl--"The anger grows and grows, and it just keeps chipping away at your love for those children," he says--and since his ex-wife moved to another state, he has had no contact with the twins. But under Colorado law, he is still required...