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...interests and their advocates in Congress. A preliminary settlement appeared to have been reached last week allowing the U.S. to impose punitive tariffs on $520 million in European goods, though that figure is subject to review. Whatever the amount, it is not likely to please Europe, and that could spark a trade war that would drive up prices for U.S. consumers and crimp markets for U.S. exports...
...This event was attended by 200 photographers, all there to capture the duo's first public appearance as a couple, and heralded by a British paper as a "Royal Night of History." Thus was CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES officially sanctioned the Royal Girlfriend by PRINCE CHARLES. Nothing like spontaneity to spark up a romance...
...still needed another spark. So she flew to Jamaica. Hill is engaged to Rohan Marley, the son of reggae superstar Bob Marley and the father of her two children, one-year-old Zion and three-month-old Selah. ("We haven't been in front of a minister yet, but we will be soon," says Hill. "Our marriage right now is more a spiritual one.") As part of the extended Marley clan, she was allowed to record in the studio in the Bob Marley Museum. She says she could feel Marley's spirit as soon as she arrived. The first...
Lots of people, of course, would like to draw broader conclusions from the study. For instance, does it support the belief that, despite all these inherent errors pointing to destruction, humankind's survival shows it has the capacity to overcome itself and exhibit a spark of the divine? Well, "the study allows one to speculate that we are not so tied to natural selection pressures," Gorman says. "We have the ability to shape our environment." What about the belief that sex is good for you? Since the study shows that the rate of genetic errors is high, "the study supports...
...women, all facing a moderate to high risk of developing breast cancer, underwent prophylactic mastectomies from 1960 to 1993 and reduced their chances of dying from the malignancy at least 90%. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has received so much attention that it could spark an increase in the number of preventive mastectomies. Currently, according to Dr. Kenneth Kern, a surgical oncologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital, perhaps a few hundred such operations are performed nationwide each year...