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About 85% to 90% of patients with AMD have the dry form, in which lesions appear on the macula, the region of the retina that is responsible for central vision. The more serious, wet form occurs when abnormal blood vessels obscure vision. A study of more than 300 people with dry AMD published in last week's American Journal of Ophthalmology showed that those who were taking statins were half as likely to develop wet AMD. Taking aspirin--with or without a statin--worked almost as well...
Judging from the violence that has convulsed Iraq in the weeks since the letter was discovered, al-Zarqawi's vision is materializing. A 37-year-old Jordanian with an artificial leg and a deep scar along the side of his face, al-Zarqawi is said to be a commander of Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish guerrilla group linked to al-Qaeda, which may be behind the wave of suicide bombings in Iraq. But al-Zarqawi also has a wider influence. Western intelligence officials say terrorists tied to recent attacks in Casablanca, Istanbul and Madrid all had contacts with him. With...
Born to a poor family, Lula received merely an eighth-grade education. He rose to prominence in Sao Paulo as a fiery labor-union leader and head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party. After losing three presidential races, he finally won in 2002 with a more centrist vision that many development experts see as a model that can be applied elsewhere. Lula's challenges are daunting. Brazil's economy is wheezing again this year, and angry voters around Latin America are protesting a decade of capitalist reforms. But he has staked out a distinct role. Says Eduardo Gamarra, director...
...region that has long been victimized by corruption. Her achievements are increasingly attracting global attention. She has been singled out by the World Bank for her efforts in poverty reduction and recently served on the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, helping to map out a vision of how even the poorest countries can unleash entrepreneurship and mobilize the private sector to meet their development challenges. --By MARK MALLOCH BROWN, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
...individual" as conundrums. It soon became clear that Kael is a dyed-in-the-sawdust anti-intellectual. The "experience" of a movie, for Kael, is both dramatic, and visually, sensually evocative. But, while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard for the fun whenever possible. She thinks that all education in film studies is evil because it gets between a movie and that mythical "response" of the viewer. She thus lacks any consistent...