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...while we've done a lot of innovative things around direct service and less advocacy, really getting at the root of the problem," Cox says...
...spectacular, on the other hand, are the seemingly boundless medical possibilities inherent in this discovery. If a cancer specialist can use this map to accelerate her search for the genetic anomaly that leads to breast cancer, we might find a cure - or a means of prevention. And if the root of a chronic illness lies buried in our DNA, the genome map could eventually lead us to a usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest descriptions are critical...
Indeed, "post-Zionism" has become the root of all evil in the rhetoric of the Israeli right. As Israelis weary of sending generation after generation of their children into wars which not even the most decisive military victory can end, they have lost the will to continue the Jewish national struggle and are more inclined to concede the country's most fundamental values, like control over the Temple Mount, for the sake of peace--and quiet. Or at least, so say Safire and his right-wing chums, who take "peacemonger" as a much stronger insult than "warmonger...
...Israeli troops in an attack on a Jordanian village, killing 69 civilians, most of whom were women and children. He has also been credited with engineering the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila during Israel's disastrous attempt to root the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of Lebanon. After this episode, he was the subject of an inquiry commission by his own government, which found him indirectly responsible for the massacre, a decision that forced him to resign. Most recently, he has gained notoriety as the man who entered the holy Islamic site...
...announcement by the British and Italian governments that both countries would send their own immigration and police officials to the Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum ?shoppers?-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants...