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...that said, the threat from Somalia needs to be kept in perspective. Al-Shabab is far smaller than the Taliban. "There are bigger gangs in L.A.," says the intelligence officer. It is prone to factionalism and has found it hard to garner support among ordinary Somalis. The U.N. has reported that al-Shabab receives funds and weapons from the Middle East and the Eritrean government. (Al-Shabab fights Ethiopia, and Ethiopia is Eritrea's archenemy.) But that support is small compared with the assistance that extremist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan have received from radical Islamists around the world. Finally...
Although opioids have a reputation for being instantly addictive, studies find that the average patient does not enjoy the feeling of being on the drug; even among recreational users, most who try it don't get hooked. Patients who are prone to addiction are typically those who have histories of emotional trauma, mental illness or prior substance misuse. (See how to prevent illness...
...January by Von Korff and colleagues linked high-dose opioid use to a doubling of the risk of broken bones in the elderly. "One-third of these were hip and pelvic fractures," Von Korff says. "These can really be debilitating." The authors speculate that the patients may have been prone to falls caused by dizziness or sedation, side effects of drug treatment that tend to occur early in a new drug regimen or when dosage changes...
Britain's Prime Minister emerges in three new books - by Peter Watt, a former general secretary of the Labour Party, Lance Price, a former Downing Street adviser, and Andrew Rawnsley, a political journalist - as a man of volcanic rages, prone to lobbing mobile phones and choice epithets if provoked. And this trio of tomes, carefully timed for publication ahead of parliamentary elections tipped by insiders to take place on May 6, certainly offers provocation. (Read a TIME profile of Gordon Brown...
...rates have declined as America has grown older. The median age in 1990, near the peak of the crime wave, was 32, according to Conklin. A decade later, it was over 35. Today, it is 36-plus. (It is also true that today's young men are less prone to crime. The juvenile crime rate in 2007, the most recent available, was the lowest in at least a generation...