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What makes report significant is the size and detail of data. Some previous, smaller studies on abortion and future birth weight have suffered because researchers were unable to untangle the effects of abortion from, say, the effects of being poor (which also happens to increase a woman's odds of having an abortion). But the researchers behind the JECH study, which evaluated just over 45,000 single-child live births from 1959 to 1966, were able to adjust for an impressive array of confounding variables, including race, age, weight, height, marital status, occupation, the number of prenatal visits, the number...
...sender would have known that the first message was caught by the filter," Gergis says, "unless he was one of the recipients." On Dec. 17, Detectives Silagyi and Flanders sat Nava down for a second interview to review "inconsistencies" in his story based on their own investigations over the previous few days. This time, Nava cracked...
...open an investigation into allegations of fraud against presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak. The Assembly greenlighted the probe after a video surfaced over the weekend of a lecture Lee gave in 2000, in which he claimed that he set up Korean investment firm BBK, a connection he had previously denied. Kim Kyung Joon, the head of the company and Lee's business partner in a previous venture, was indicted on Dec. 5 on charges of rigging share prices and embezzling tens of millions of dollars from the company, although Seoul prosecutors announced last week that they could find...
...himself, and addressed his unpopularity only through oblique warnings about the dangers of division within the party. Regarding Zuma, Mbeki made several mentions of the dangers of corruption inside the party, and said that the corruption case against Zuma was a situation for which the party leadership had no previous experience, and "all of us hoped we would put this matter behind us sooner rather than later...
...Yeah, right. That cool vanished on Monday, with the unveiling of Sarkozy's new love interest - the singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni, whose previous companions include Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. The conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro - which strongly supports Sarkozy - on Monday splashed a quarter-page photo of Bruni on its front page, which is typically reserved for dry political news, under the headline: "The president's girlfriend." Bruni's photo appeared next to an article predicting a tough week ahead for Sarkozy's reform program, over which trade unions are planning mass strikes. The President's happier...