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...Gazans aren't digging for fun: it is a matter directly related to their lives. What does Israel earn from trying to prevent a hungry person from eating? I really hope that these meaningless hostilities will fade. Jiwon Kwak, Seoul
That benefit increases, however, with the age of the women being screened, as the risk of breast cancer rises: among women 50 to 59, one death is averted for every 1,339 women routinely screened; among women 60 to 69, 377 mammograms would be needed to prevent one death. The task force's computer models further showed that shifting women's screening schedule from yearly to once every two years retains 81% of the benefit of screening while reducing the harms like false positives by half...
...mail added that upon receiving the concern, former Election Commission Chair Brad A. Seiler ’10 had originally reassured EC members that they would all receive access to voting results in order to prevent any sort of tampering from going unnoticed. He failed to deliver on that assurance, the e-mail added...
...claim to follow Maoist doctrine on armed people's struggle, have been waging a guerilla war against the Indian government since their first uprising in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari in 1967. For over three decades a phlegmatic response from central and state security organs did little to prevent the then isolated Naxal insurgency from foraying into underdeveloped forest and jungle regions in central and eastern India where it gained support of impoverished tribal groups and villagers. By 2001, some Naxalites had gained sway over 51 districts, and with the state response mechanism to their movements still weak, that...
...appeal. Believe it or not, the spectacular incompetence of the Corps may ultimately help its defense. And second, even if the Corps does lose on appeal, the resulting embarrassment - and the potential fiscal nightmare for the country - would be unlikely to promote the kinds of changes that would prevent another Corps-made disaster. (See pictures of recovery from the damage of Katrina...