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...radiation that's needed while a woman is still on the operating table. In an experiment conducted on 15 women in England, physicians inserted a tiny coil into the cavity created by the removal of a tumor. The bottom of the coil was shielded in lead to protect the heart and lungs, while the breast tissue was stretched around the coil. As the surgical team left the room to avoid exposure, the device delivered a full course of radiation treatment at once. After 25 minutes, the coil was removed. In 18 months of follow-up, none of the breast cancers...
...dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops. Bad move. China retaliated by putting tariffs on Japanese cars, air conditioners and mobile phones, businesses worth $700 million annually - seven times more than the farm products Japan...
...being moved to smaller cells, even in new, more comfortable buildings. The relative isolation, they argued, would leave them at the mercy of their jailers, who could more easily bully or torture them. There is safety in numbers, the inmates said, and they were prepared to die to protect themselves in a prison system riddled with injustice...
Human-rights activists and others believe the new legislation merely reflects Turkish officials' attempts to conform to E.U. norms without changing the spirit of how laws are applied. There is a prevailing sense in Turkey that laws exist to protect a "sacred" state from irrational individuals, rather than to protect individuals from possible arbitrary actions by the state. "It's up to the courts to interpret the laws in accordance with Turkey's commitment to join the European Union and to abide by the European Court of Human Rights," says Jonathan Sugden of Human Rights Watch. That view appears...
...Denmark was a Sleeping Beauty country with a wall around it to protect us against all foreign influence," says Integration Minister Bertel Haarder. "Now globalization has come over this country, and we are experiencing the dark side of our social-welfare system." According to Haarder, more than half of Denmark's 300,000 immigrants (out of a total population of 5.3 million) are unemployed and living on welfare. Among some groups, including Somalis, the number of jobless is 90%. The social-welfare system is so generous, the government contends, that there is no incentive for refugees to find...