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...force of American arms could easily be seen as the reimposition of imperialism. Fairly or not, in the Arab world, America's appetite for cheap oil and its closeness to Israel undercut its claims to act in the name of freedom and democracy. Representative Nick Rahall of West Virginia, who has just returned from Baghdad, says many Iraqis want change - but think the U.S. is the last nation likely to supply it. Geoana broadens the point: "External pressure is not enough," he says, "If you export a product that is alien to a culture, it won't work. People find...
...there are other, more intractable problems. "The seemingly innocuous blood test," notes Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, "can set in motion a cascade of follow-up tests, some of which are not innocuous at all." Take, for example, the CA-125 test, pitched by some entrepreneurs as a possible way to detect ovarian cancer. Studies have shown that the vast majority of positive CA-125 results are false, which is why few physicians recommend it. Yet InterFit Health in Houston still offers the CA-125 test--albeit with caveats...
...tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told TIME. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland, Va., about 80 miles south of Washington, where a rifle shot Saturday...
...charter plane carrying Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers and two pilots, went down in a wooded area near Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 175 miles north of Minneapolis. All eight passengers were confirmed dead. Wellstone was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker. The plane, identified as a King Air, is a twin-engine turboprop made by Raytheon...
Harvard will be well-represented as the top women’s tennis players from Virginia to Maine descend upon Cambridge this weekend to compete in the Omni Hotels Eastern Regional Championships from Friday to Tuesday...