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...church, like any other institution, is part of society and the faults and sins of its members reflect society at large. Nowadays, we and our children can easily access pornography with a click of our mouse. Video games very often have violent and explicit content. Priests, like other human beings, live in a world where sex is ubiquitous. It is painful for me to learn of the acts of some priests, but the sins of a few cannot be the reason to abandon the church and forget what Christ has preached. Carlos Barcia, MURCIA, SPAIN...
Debating Statins The issues addressed in "The Prescription Gender Gap" - which questions the benefits to women of statins - merit context [March 29]. Heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and 3 killers of Americans, including women. Statin therapy as part of a comprehensive treatment regimen that includes lifestyle modification is highly effective for both men and women and is in part responsible for the recent 30% decline in deaths due to heart disease and stroke. It is correct that more women should be enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive...
...Debating Statins The issues addressed in "The Prescription Gender Gap" - which questions the benefits to women of statins - merit context [March 29]. Heart disease and stroke remain the No. 1 and 3 killers of Americans, including women. Statin therapy as part of a comprehensive treatment regimen that includes lifestyle modification is highly effective for both men and women and is in part responsible for the recent 30% decline in deaths due to heart disease and stroke. It is correct that more women should be enrolled in clinical trials, side effects of any therapy are real, and not all persons receive...
...famous World War II battleground, still hosts roughly 25,000 troops, almost all of them Marines, and the local Okinawans have long resented the heavy military presence. In 2006, the U.S. and Japan reached an agreement to move a Marine air base on Okinawa to a less populated part of the island and relocate 8,000 troops to Guam. (Read "Five Ways to Fix Japan's Economy...
...Pakistanis also argue that there's more to holding an area than just boots on the ground. As part of its counterinsurgency strategy, the Pakistani military says it is taking the lead in eliminating the factors that helped the area fall to the extremists in the first place: poverty and bureacractic ineptitude and corruption. In Swat, it has set up joint civilian-military liaison cells, which bring together representatives of the military, provincial government and tribal elders. "There are so many reasons that we fell to them [the Taliban] and they took over, so many reasons," says Bakhd Zada...