Word: sayed
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...This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say good-bye," she said, with a tear in each eye. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It's the perfect number - the exact right time." (See the top 10 Oprah controversies...
...highly politicized - discussion of a topic that is for most women more emotional than medical. Add to that an immediate offensive blitz by some cancer doctors who were concerned that the new guidelines would essentially limit their patients' options for preventing breast-cancer death. "I am appalled and horrified," says Dr. David Dershaw, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "We have something that saves lives, and to say we are not going to do it anymore is unconscionable...
...protestors, members of the organization Say Yes to Drugs, which advocates for access rights to medicine in developing countries, said that the University should have a strategy for generic access for poor people in place before seeking patents for health technologies in countries like India and China, which have the capacity to produce cheap generic drugs...
However, according to Kevin Casey, Associate Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs, the University and Say Yes to Drugs share the same goals...
...Sensitive to charges that the U.S. is soft-pedaling its own interests, the President's aides say there was also tough talk behind the scenes. In the meeting with the Burmese, for instance, the President spoke out on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who lives under house arrest. In China, Obama called for the communist government to meet with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader. And Obama appeared to be gaining support from Russia for tougher measures against Iran. "Other options remain on the table," Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian President said, stopping short of defining...