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Leave it to Iraq's tenacious ruler to taunt his enemies and torture his people when he's supposed to be good and dead. Even after the second U.S. strike on a purported hiding place, even after his government had vanished and the statues had toppled, it required a leap of faith for the people of Iraq to believe he would never be able to touch them again. The streets of Baghdad itched with rumors. The Americans missed him by 10 minutes or 10 yards. He's in Russia, in Syria, on an island off the coast of Spain...
...limo to greet an adoring crowd, with Qusay at his side. So it was uncanny when something like that very scene played on Abu Dhabi TV late last week. The network said its source insists the video was made on April 9, two days after Washington launched a bomb strike that many suspected had killed Saddam...
...will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don't realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500,000 women die in the U.S. each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40,000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer...
...True, women don't usually start showing signs until their 60s--about 10 years after men first develop symptoms. And hormones seem to play a protective role in women before menopause. But the common belief that premenopausal women are immune to heart problems is just plain wrong. Heart attacks strike 9,000 women younger than 45 each year...
...might not be finished until 2010. The admission was untimely, coming days before the 17th anniversary of the disaster at the plant, when one of four reactors exploded, killing 31 workers and spewing radiation over much of Europe in the world's worst nuclear accident. TIMEeurope.com: Ukraine in TIME Strike Two ZIMBABWE The government raised minimum wages and set new transportation fares after 70% of businesses shut down in a massive three-day strike organized by Zimbabwe's Congress of Trade Unions. The strike was called after the government tripled the cost of fuel because of a shortage. As commuter...