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Excessive daytime drowsiness in older adults may predict a significantly increased risk of stroke, said researchers reporting data on Thursday at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans...
...Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chassis and tried to approach...
...Forming a new government will take time, though, and its first business is far more likely to be in Islamabad than in the lawless mountainous areas where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based. If the coalition plan announced Thursday by leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is implemented, there is even a chance Musharraf will be impeached...
Flames issuing from the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday underscored the mounting rage in Serbia over Kosovo's Western-backed declaration of independence. The embassy was unguarded when several hundred demonstrators attacked, following a protest rally by hundreds of thousands of protesters. At that larger rally, held earlier, the sharp divisions that typify Serbian politics were nowhere to be seen, as leaders from across the spectrum united in a massive show of force to protest Kosovo's secession from Serbia. As banners bearing messages such as "Kosovo is Serbia" were hoisted, the country's leading politicians were joined...
...danger in Ankawa, which is both a beacon of refuge for the country's endangered Christians, and, perhaps, the romance capital of Iraq. The main street leading into town is lined with bridal shops, and there are weddings almost every night during the high season in summer. Every Thursday and Sunday evening, teenagers and young adults used to promenade along a road nicknamed "Love Street" because of all the heavy flirting going on in between stops at ice cream parlors. Nowadays, the action has shifted to a nearby amusement park, where boys and girls walk in concentric circles moving...