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...problem for the Bush Administration is that while many Americans recoil, much of the rest of the world applauds. That's a big reason the U.S. is lobbying hard to prevent Venezuela from winning a nonpermanent seat next month on the U.N. Security Council, where Chávez could run interference for his friend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. The U.S. is backing Guatemala for the seat, but Chávez has lined up the support of such influential nations as Russia, China and Brazil. And if Venezuela does win it, it would...
...wheelchair," he says. "At home in bed, you can examine the whole body." He can also snoop around the house. "We open a lot of refrigerators and look at bathrooms," he says. "You find patients are taking their medications wrong. You try to prevent crises, and nothing can do that better than seeing people in their own environment...
...miraculous rallies in the last two games, and was aided by a pair of personnel changes.Witt slightly injured his elbow on the final play of the third quarter and was replaced by senior Richard Irvin for the remainder of the game, while Dawson was also removed to prevent any injury.“I’m just a little banged up right now,” Witt said. “It was more of a precaution than anything,” he added.A missed field goal on that drive gave the Bears possession at their own 20 yard...
...winter doesn’t mean the end of tanning season—at least, not if you’re a mouse. The Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has provided red-haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children?...
...also a host of technological hurdles stand between our current capabilities and a highway full of hydrogen vehicles. Distributing hydrogen to consumers will require an entirely new infrastructure to transport the gas as well as new filling stations. Safely holding hydrogen in cars will require heavily reinforced tanks to prevent the family station wagon from going the way of the Hindenburg. And although hydrogen has a high energy yield per pound, it has an incredibly low mass density, even at subzero temperatures, so fuel tanks need to be unreasonably large to give hydrogen vehicles usable driving ranges. Still, scientists hope...