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...Still, the shock waves of the Gaza strike are likely to include renewed pressure on the Labor Party to quit Sharon's unity government. Although the leader of the Labor Party, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, was involved in the decision to attack Shehade, his membership is growing restless. Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, daughter of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, quit her post as deputy defense minister Tuesday, saying she could not remain in a government that had abandoned her father's pursuit of peace...
...death, however, this creature has just sent shock waves through the world of science. After eight grueling years of hunting in the hot, wind-scoured desert of central Africa, an international team of researchers has uncovered one of the most sensational fossil finds in living memory: the well-preserved skull of a chimp-size animal, probably a male, that doesn't fit any known species. According to paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, whose team reported the find in Nature last week, there is no way it could have been an ape of any kind...
...first hint that all was not well came late in 1999, when the monitoring board detected an unexpected increase in the risk of blood clots and heart attacks in women on combination-hormone therapy. Although the absolute risk was small, it came as a shock. Most doctors believed that hormone replacement offered protection against cardiovascular disease. Investigators informed participants and their doctors of their findings early in 2000 but decided to continue the study to see if the negative effect persisted. Perhaps, they reasoned, it takes longer for cardiovascular benefits to appear...
...DOES STRENGTH TRAINING HELP RELIEVE THE PAIN OF OSTEOARTHRITIS, THE WEAR-AND-TEAR FORM OF ARTHRITIS? By helping the joints align and function better--and also because strong muscles absorb shock during movement. Think of a car with worn-out shock absorbers. When you go over a pothole, the car gets a big jolt. The same happens with weak muscles. You can't absorb the shock, and it's painful. There may be some other biochemical factors as well...
...Davis made the pieces fit well enough to create one of the great leaps forward in contemporary pop music, Endtroducing ... DJ Shadow, an album of odd snippets blended into warm songs that serves as a kind of jumbled soundtrack to modernity. The Private Press doesn't have Endtroducing's shock of the new, but its music is just as seductive...