| Obama’s Threat To Pakistan: His Sister Souljah Moment?
For Edwards, it's an opportunity to further differentiate himself to the left of Obama. If this doesn't give the opening that Bill Richardson and John Edwards were looking for to criticize Obama directly, I don't know what does. Heck, even Clinton has the opportunity to move to the left of Obama over the issue of a the US launching a unilateral pre-emptive attack inside Pakistan. Because if Pakistan is game, why isn't Saudi Arabia as well? Stephen Green, aka Vodka Pundit: Let me get this straight. Obama thinks the US can't handle Iraq, but would do just fine invading a friendly-ish country with double the land area and six times the population? Much as it pains me to agree with Hillary Clinton, "naive" is the word that comes to my mind, too. Attytood: This is controversial? In a time when so many David Broder-types bemoan the lack of bipartisanship in foreign policy, isn't this something that the majority of Americans can agree with? How different is it from this? THE Bush Administration is not ruling out direct assaults on al-Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan, one of its closest allies in the fight against terrorism.
Wine, Beer, Spirits Boost Breast Cancer Risk Equally
THURSDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Three or more drinks a day boosts a woman's risk for breast cancer by 30 percent. And it doesn't seem to matter which form of alcohol -- wine, beer, or spirits -- is consumed, researchers report. "The majority of previous studies have found an association between alcohol and elevated breast cancer risk," said lead researcher Dr. Yan Li, an oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif. What hasn't been as clear, she said, is how much alcohol raises the risk and whether one type of alcohol boosts that risk more than another. Li tackled those questions with Dr. Arthur Klatsky, an investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland and a long-time researcher on the health benefits and risks of alcoholic beverages.
Digital Mammography Better Than Film for Some Women
In the original study, 33 U.S. centers enrolled more than 49,000 women and determined the breast cancer status of more than 42,000. This latest research evaluated the mammograms of the 42,000 women. The new report was expected to be published in the February issue of Radiology. The new analysis, said Pisano, "pretty much confirms what we found [in the original study]." "In this latest study, we were trying to figure out which factor was most important," she said. To do that, they compared the accuracy results of digital versus film mammograms in 10 different subgroups of women, looking at combinations of the three factors -- menopausal status, age and breast density. "And we couldn't figure out which factor was most important," Pisano said. For other groups of women, no significant differences in accuracy were found between the two methods.
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