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...week later, Harvard countersued, alleging that Templeton was improperly blocking its efforts to put a proposal in front of shareholders. The two sides settled their dispute when Templeton, in a partial victory for Harvard, allowed the University to sell back its $115 million investment at a price above market value...
...meeting during the UN General Assembly that Israel's responsibility for the Gaza Strip was ended by the final withdrawal of its soldiers early Monday morning. The Palestinians don't accept that, because Israel maintains control over Gaza?s airspace and the sea. It also has partial control over the border crossing...
Rejection of the constitution would almost certainly delay any plans for a partial pullout of U.S. troops. But the U.S. has officially refused to negotiate with al-Sadr because of his history of insurrection. That leaves it to the Iraqi government to try to win him over. Says government spokesman Laith Kubba: "There is a lot of effort behind the scenes to bring everybody on board." --By Christopher Allbritton, Aparisim Ghosh and Meitham Jasim
...Battle of New Orleans may yet be a cataclysmic event that scuttles Bush's political agenda. One can imagine how the reconstruction of an American city will put unbearable pressure on him to pull out of Iraq or abandon his partial privatization of Social Security. And it may yet emerge that the federal response to Katrina was even worse than it seemed, making the questions about pre-9/11 intelligence pale by comparison. Democrats harbor such fantasies. But Bush's career is all about people underestimating him and it would be a mistake to do so this time...
...Cardiac CT is not foolproof. Unlike catheterization, it doesn't yet produce clear enough pictures of some of the smaller arteries of the heart. And any arterial plaques that contain calcium deposits, which typically appear in older people, show up like white blobs, so that the blockage could be partial or total (see box). Then there's the issue of radiation. A typical cardiac CT scan exposes a patient to 50 to 80 times the amount of radiation in a series of full-mouth dental X rays. Researchers hope to figure out ways to decrease the dose soon...