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...carful of young men ran a Saudi roadblock near Mecca. As they passed, the driver threw a grenade at the guards. Saudi security forces gave chase and cornered the men in a building. A standoff took shape. The Saudis called in reinforcements. Overwhelming force was applied to the situation. All the terrorists were killed, including a man easily identified from pictures plastered across the kingdom: Yusef al-Ayeri...
...apparent that the roadblock to change isn’t economic; if anything, the companies that have begun to change their work climate recognize the advantage in making use of the forty-six percent of the workforce who are women. Rather, as tends to be the case, a cultural stagnancy with a long legacy is to blame. As late as 1971, Richard Nixon vetoed a bill to create a national child-care system, deeming it a threat to the American family...
...thwarted HIV at the end of its reproductive cycle; Pfizer's compound, a once-a-day pill called Miraviroc, targets the beginning of the disease process. Now in the last stage of being tested in patients, the compound, in combination with other anti-HIV drugs, could become a significant roadblock in preventing HIV infections from mushrooming into full-blown cases of AIDS. ?INSOMNIA Getting a good night's sleep is an ordeal for 70 million Americans. Medications like Ambien can help, but because they target neurons in the brain that control both wakefulness and muscle relaxation, sometimes they work...
...without any positive results from doping control. It's crazy." Agovino defends his actions. "Athletes are obliged to respect the law like everyone else," he says. Mayer, meanwhile, fled the area and was later taken into custody across the border in Austria after crashing his car into a police roadblock. While denying allegations that he was involved in doping, Mayer checked into the psychiatric ward of an Austrian hospital, and told a local magazine that he was trying to kill himself when he crashed the car. Biathletes Wolfgang Rottmann and Wolfgang Perner, among the 10 Austrians tested, also checked...
...melting so fast, but because record melting at its upper surface is letting water percolate down to the bedrock, where it acts as a lubricant. Another factor, says Dowdeswell: ice "tongues" that form where glaciers meet the ocean have broken up over recent years, removing a sort of roadblock that holds them in check...