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...determine the long-term effects of artificially delayed puberty, but the FDA has noted no serious side effects in the nearly 20 years hormone blockers have been used in the U.S. to treat early-onset puberty in the short term. Although some U.S. studies show that interrupting puberty can weaken bone density, preliminary findings by the medical center of the Free University in Amsterdam, which has prescribed hormone blockers for about 80 children since 1987, don't suggest any such problems. The blocker treatment is also easily reversible: puberty begins as soon as drug use is discontinued. Otherwise, a child...
...imposing a minimum of three “preferred lenders” for universities. This is a step in the right direction. Enforcing a baseline level of competition will drive down loan interest rates that were artificially inflated by guaranteed business for lenders.Despite the benefit of such regulations, they weaken many state regulations. After securing millions in settlements from corporations like Citibank and Sallie Mae, the federal lender, Cuomo was able to persuade dozens of universities and student lending firms—even some outside New York—to adhere to a “code of conduct...
...police away from fighting terrorists. The militants and terrorists would have wanted nothing better than a fresh confrontation between the people and the government. And it is to prevent instability that my party and I have taken the decision to have political negotiations with General Musharraf in order to weaken the terrorists. But I am afraid his actions have played into the terrorist's hands. And he should remedy it. All of us who have a stake in eliminating terrorism must all work together to reverse what has happened...
...combination of the tribal insurgency and related militancy in the cities, as well as anti-Musharraf agitation by the middle class (such as the recent lawyers' protests that forced Musharraf to back down from firing chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry), will become a perfect storm of opposition that could further weaken the regime. "Martial law at this stage would be a disaster for Pakistan," says Senator Raza Rabbani. "The increase in terrorist activity in the country, the growing extremism, has a direct relationship with the lack of democracy...
...party. Some simply want to make the best of a bad situation. "This man [Musharraf] is not going to let go." Says Barkat Jafri, a mobile phone vendor in Bhutto's hometown of Larkana. " If she can negotiate a transition to democracy it's a good thing. It may weaken him, and then we can get rid of him as well...