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...being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class.” He said that lapses in moral leadership, raw power, and economic strength have caused the country to fall from a position of global strength, and he called for a “new philosophical approach to foreign policy...
...Average weight (2.37 kg) of a woman's handbag...
...their role in context: of 68 House members who remain undecided, 22 are freshmen. In the Senate only two of the eight freshmen have endorsed: Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island threw his weight behind Clinton and Missouri's Claire McCaskill is supporting Obama. But Senators have the luxury of six-year terms whereas the House members go back to the polls in eight months, and whoever is facing off John McCain at the top of the Democratic ticket could have a major impact on their own races - a concern many freshmen have voiced about Clinton behind closed doors. Democrats...
Researchers looked at patient measurements typically used to assess heart disease risk: age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, total cholesterol, diabetes status and any hypertension treatment. They found that they could substitute body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of height to weight), a noninvasive measure, for the lab-based blood test for cholesterol and still accurately predict patients' five-year cardiovascular disease risk...
...needs to show it can walk the walk, since the Union is still lagging badly in achieving its stated goal of a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. On Friday, E.U. leaders ended their two-day Brussels summit by throwing their weight behind a more precise timetable for those goals. Still, not everyone is convinced they showed enough backbone to ensure that they stick...