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...kids with a genetic risk of abnormally high cholesterol, called hyperlipidemia, they could lower the bar for prescriptions - not just for these children but for any overweight youngster whose cholesterol is not in check. Within hours of the AAP announcement on July 7, parents took to the blogs, expressing shock and unease over the aggressiveness of the guidelines. Statins are not without risks; in adults, in rare cases, they can cause muscle weakness and kidney problems, and there are limited data on how statins affect children...
...SOFA). The SOFA would create a legal framework for a long-term U.S. troop presence in the country after the U.N. mandate expires in December. The sudden mention of a timetable - a concept aggressively supported by al-Maliki's rivals in the Sadrist movement - may have come as a shock to Washington...
...There's a clear sense of urgency here," says Nobuo Tanaka, director of the International Energy Agency. "The oil burden is going to keep rising to levels of the last oil shock, in the 1970s. There's a sense now that this is a shared problem...
...used the machine's backhoe to slam into cars and flip over two buses, and that he tore onto the sidewalk, crushing pedestrians. Bat El-Ganem, a bus passenger, told reporters that the bulldozer "rammed into the bus again and again. Two babies flew towards me; I was in shock. I don't know how I made it out alive. We flipped over until a wall stopped us." It is believed that the killer was headed toward the Machaneh Yehudah open market, teeming with shoppers at the noon hour...
...encounter, The Waterfalls provide a spectacle that doesn't amount to an aesthetic experience, at least not if we mean by that an intimate encounter between you and a work of art. The Waterfalls draw on everything from Baroque fountains and the Hudson River School of painting to the shock displacements of Surrealism. That cascade pouring out from below the Brooklyn Bridge is like a Hudson School variation on the Surrealist definition of beauty: the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table. (To be clear, The Waterfalls are set along the East River...