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...vaccine will pose a special dilemma for everyone measuring the risks this fall. We already know there will not be enough vaccine for everyone right away. So the priority will be to vaccinate high-risk people, such as those with chronic conditions like diabetes. But high-risk people tend not to think of themselves that way. "They feel fine. They go to work and take care of their kids. They don't define themselves day to day as someone with asthma," says Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. (Read about...
Despite the government's view that cell phones pose no danger, some researchers note that most of us have been using them for less than a decade. If there is indeed a cumulative risk to using a mobile phone, it's possible that users won't be aware of it until it's too late - just as it took doctors decades to connect cigarette-smoking with lung cancer. "We all wish we'd heeded the early warnings about cigarettes," says Olga Naidenko, a senior scientist at EWG and the author of the recent report on cell phones. "We think cell...
...international study called Interphone, which is meant to nail down the answer once and for all. But the study ended in 2006 and its authors are still squabbling over the interpretation of their data. To date, the "peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health risk," says John Walls, a spokesperson for CTIA, the international wireless-industry association...
...will almost certainly remain a Democratic state, the state has certainly elected Republican governors in the past and could certainly do so again. A Republican governor would put tremendous pressure on local Democratic leaders and the state legislature. Further, if Giuliani were elected governor of New York, he might pose a threat to President Obama’s own reelection bid in 2012. It is quite reasonable, then, for President Obama to communicate his concerns to Governor Paterson so as to avoid the many problems for the Democratic Party that an unsuccessful New York gubernatorial campaign could create...
...surged in Israeli opinion polls by pushing back against Obama's settlement-freeze demands, and he is under no domestic pressure to make any concessions. But Abbas' domestic constituency will see the New York City meeting as yet another humiliation inflicted on him by Washington, which has had him pose for endless photographs with an array of Israeli leaders who have no intention of satisfying the basic demands of a peace agreement he could accept. In a bid to reclaim some of the ground he has consequently lost to the more radical Hamas organization, Abbas had refused to meet with...