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...their own, there is growing evidence that many Iraqi soldiers are more loyal to religious or ethnic factions than to the central government. Sunni Arabs are worried that the new Iraqi army and the Interior Ministry's security forces are infiltrated by partisan Shi'ite and Kurdish militias who target Sunnis for reprisals--a fear that gained credence this month with the discovery of 173 mostly Sunni detainees in an Interior Ministry building who were malnourished and in some cases showed signs of torture. "If the Iraqi security forces the Americans leave behind increasingly are identified as anti-Sunni...
...class of so-called COX-2 inhibitors that came under scrutiny last year for their heart-related side effects. Its label now warns doctors and patients of the risk of heart attack and stroke. Expect to see more of those warnings as drugs become more sophisticated and start to target the basic biological mechanisms behind disease...
...came to Harvard, and I have never felt so welcome at a school before,” she said. “Harvard gave us blankets. They took us to Target. I have had a lot of fun integrating with students in my dorm...
Next to Venezuela's gargantuan oil industry, gold once seemed an unlikely target of resource nationalism. But Venezuela possesses about 2.5% of the world's 1 billion oz. of unmined gold reserves, and experts say about half its gold is mined by some 30,000 illegal miners. So as bullion approaches $500 per oz.--and as miners call attention to their squalid lives--gold has become a hot political as well as economic commodity...
...have a direct effect on last week's debate: How many U.S. troops should be in Iraq and for how long? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday that after the elections, the U.S. hopes to drop troop levels from 160,000 to about 138,000, with a target of 100,000 by the end of 2006. Elsewhere, NBC News' Tim Russert grilled Rep. John Murtha-the Pennsylvania Democrat and decorated Vietnam War veteran whose impassioned speech on Iraq sparked Friday's meltdown in the House-on Rumsfeld's future and whether Bush should find a new Pentagon chief...