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...among the ultra-fit: an athlete has a greater chance than the average person of suddenly dropping dead. As physicians and sporting organizations learn more about the condition known as sudden cardiac death (SCD), their research has opened an emotive and evolving debate about what can be done to protect athletes - and how much money should be spent trying to prevent what is still a rare but devastating occurrence...
...spending to safeguard the financial sector and boost the economy could result in massive deficits and mounting inflation. "People who are buying gold are buying into the argument that the Federal Reserve will not be able to take back all the liquidity it has poured into the market and protect against inflation," says James DiGeorgia, editor of the newsletter Gold and Energy Advisor. (See pictures of modern-day gold prospectors...
Though freedom of speech cannot legally be enforced at a private institution such as Harvard, University officials have an obligation to apply and protect the same principles in an academic setting, Wunsch said...
...Italy. But Americans are still divided on whether to embrace the declaration that President Obama made during his speech in Cairo this summer. "Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion," said Obama. "That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny...
...proposal was necessary, wrote Monaco's Prince Albert in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, because ICCAT had failed to protect the tuna population, setting quotas higher than those recommended by its own scientists and turning a blind eye to illegal fishing. CITES would be a more appropriate regulatory body than ICCAT, Albert noted, because it "is presided over by trade and environment ministers, rather than fisheries ministers...