What’s Offline: Accepting The Unacceptable
Is it possible to lead a balanced life, devoting enough time to both family and career?...
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Tibet: Teenagers Held For Pro-Independence Slogans
Eight boys ages 14 and 15 have been detained in the Tibetan town of Xiahe since Sept. 7 for writing graffiti and distributing pamphlets praising the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader, and for ca...
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The Fuel Fixers
How the scarcity of oil may be making our antibribery laws obsolete....
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Malawi Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan
The move drew a bitter response from Taiwanese officials who accused the China of luring the Malawians into its camp with money and other inducements....
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U.N. Warns That Darfur War Is Worsening, With Perhaps 300, 000 Dead
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The conflict in Darfur is deteriorating, with full deployment of a new peacekeeping force delayed until 2009 and no prospect of a political settlement for a war that has killed ...
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Health News

Birds, Bugs Named as Steroid Users!
2007-12-26 04:50 - Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.

The Lure of Treatments Science Has Dismissed
2007-12-26 04:50 - Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.

Food Scarcity and H.I.V. Interwoven in Uganda
2007-12-26 04:50 - Staying uninvolved while interviewing participants for a study about the effect of food shortages on H.I.V. treatment is often difficult, one researcher finds.

As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
2007-12-24 04:50 - Aided by global warming and globalization, Italy suffered the first outbreak of a tropical disease in modern Europe.

Sickened, and Fighting Another Cold War
2007-12-24 04:50 - Cold war workers, sick from exposure to radiation years ago, now face a tangle of red tape between them and government compensation.

TV’s Perfect Girl Is Pregnant; Real Families Talk
2007-12-23 06:01 - News of the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears brought the subject of teenage pregnancy and sex suddenly into the air for mothers and daughters and fathers, too.

The Recalls? Aftershocks
2007-12-23 04:50 - What happened to all the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently? Most, it turns out, may still be in consumers? hands.

A Buyout for Manager of Drug Trials
2007-12-23 04:50 - One Equity Partners agreed to sell its stake in Quintiles Transnational, a big manager of clinical drug trials, to its C.E.O. and two buyout firms.

Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
2007-12-23 04:50 - Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.

Drug Maker and Eye Doctors Settle Dispute Over Avastin
2007-12-22 06:01 - Genentech appears to have resolved a dispute with ophthalmologists over use of the company’s drug Avastin to treat eye diseases.


 
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