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...report that interested me most looked at the association between breast cancer and soy-based foods. This is a controversial topic because soy contains isoflavones, some of which in isolated form can stimulate the growth of estrogen-receptor-positive breast-cancer cells. That's why many Western doctors warn women against eating soy. Yet the epidemiological evidence has been promising: Asian women on diets rich in soy have significantly lower rates of breast cancer than Western women have...
Foreign diplomats warn that the arms buildup may be a prelude to a wider war. Despite being sidelined by the Islamists, the transitional government still enjoys the full-throated backing of the international community and is being armed to the teeth by neighboring Ethiopia--a necessary violation of the country's arms embargo if the transitional government is to survive, but hardly endearing to most Somalis, for whom Ethiopia is a blood enemy. Meanwhile, Ethiopia's main rival in the region, Eritrea, has funneled arms and forces to the ICU. Peace talks between the Islamists and the transitional government have...
...Palestinian negotiators warn, however, that before the biologist's government is installed, Israel will have to lift its siege of Gaza and free dozens of captive Hamas parliamentarians. But that will only happen if Palestinian militants release Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier snatched on the Gaza border last June. Negotiations are underway to free the corporal, but complications could arise...
...talks on Turkish accession to the Union. A report this week by the European Commission is expected to be sharply negative about Turkey's membership prospects, partly because Turkey has not agreed to open its ports to Greek Cypriot ships. If Turkey does not budge by December, E.U. officials warn, membership talks may be suspended. Last week, plans to hold a summit on the issue had to be abandoned because of an unwillingness to compromise by all sides. The E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, has called the prospect of breaking off membership talks with Turkey a "train wreck...
...tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection. Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done...