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Bush's supporters brushed off the report, arguing that his academic track record is hardly a good indication of presidential potential. What we should focus on is not how well Bush did in random assortment of classes some 30 years ago, but how he performs in the role of statesman...
...Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine broke the news that a widely available prescription drug has been found to drastically reduce deaths at the hands of America's number one killer - heart disease. In a rush to make the findings available to doctors, the journal preempted a report scheduled to run in January by posting the findings on its web site. The report, based on a large-scale study by Canadian researchers, says the blood pressure-lowering drug Ramipril, which has been available in America since 1991, can lower the risk of heart attack, stroke or death...
...widespread excitement over the findings stems in part from the drug's existing availability, which will enable the medical community to make it immediately accessible to heart disease patients. The report indicates that the drug could save tens of thousands of lives in the U.S. each year, and half a million worldwide. TIME medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith says the findings are in line with the medical industry's drastic improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease over the past decade. Particularly, says Smith, "in the past three years there has been a large push in technological advances...
According to Celeste James, the director of public affairs for U.S. News & World Report, no one at that magazine was aware of the survey...
...Pentagon report released last week has some in Washington claiming that America - supposedly the world's last remaining superpower - could no longer withstand two regional wars at once. It's been at least seven years since the Army has ranked one of its 10 divisions as C-4, or unfit to serve in war, but this year two divisions received that ranking, while, for the first time in recent memory, no division received the highest ranking. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blamed the Army's failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas...