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| Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: No treating with terror |
| At one time, Mariam Farahat was a mother of six, but, with her encouragement, three of her sons blew themselves up on suicide missions to murder innocent Israeli citizens, so now she's a mother of only three. Farahat is famous in Gaza for a recruitment video in which she shows her 17-year-old son how to kill Israelis in a suicide attack and then tells him not to come back. For her willingness to sacrifice her children in a spiraling culture of death, Farahat became famous as Um Nidal—Mother of the Struggle. Along with several dozen other Hamas terrorists, Farahat was just elected to the new Palestinian Legislative Council. |
| Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:00:00 EST Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Food with a purpose |
| There's an old medical saying that we dig our grave with our spoon. Enter nutrigenomics, a new field that tailors your food to your genes. It just might be the answer to our epidemic of obesity and metabolic syndrome. It could even improve how we age, better our bone and brain health, and lower our risks for certain cancers. Built around the idea that one person's medicine is another's poison, nutrigenomics, and its related technologies of proteomics (the proteins that genes order up) and metabolomics (the soup of molecules that results from metabolic activity), provide a personalized dietary road map. The field is exciting and promising but is by no means ripe for the picking--despite some commercial ventures telling you otherwise. Before we turn an important new domain of nutrition into unappetizing snake oil, let's understand what it is and isn't. |
| Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:00:00 EST Slipping back into depression; a new drug that eases the squeeze; a double dose of nicotine; more sleep and more oxygen |
| The belief that pregnancy produces a sense of well-being that keeps women from getting depressed has been debunked by research published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association . A study of some 200 women who were taking antidepressants before getting pregnant found that 68 percent of those who went off medication when they conceived relapsed, versus 26 percent of those who kept taking it. And most became depressed again within the first trimester. "They not only relapsed; they relapsed quickly," says lead author Lee Cohen, a perinatal psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. The dilemma: Both a mom-to-be's depression and certain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are associated with risks to the baby. Last year, the FDA issued an alert that the SSRI Paxil may cause fetal heart problems, while maternal depression has been linked to preterm delivery and low birth weight, as well as postpartum depression. Cohen advises women to talk to their doctors about the risks and benefits of going off antidepressants. Those who want to stop might try other ways of coping, including psychotherapy. |
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| Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:50:35 EST Police: Suspect killed woman, police officer |
| He shot one officer, evaded a roadblock, drove with flat tires, but eventually lost control of his car and ended up nose-to-nose with police. Authorities had been looking for 18-year-old Jacob Robida, a suspect in hatchet attacks and shootings at a Massachusetts gay bar. When they finally cornered him, they say he turned his gun on his companion before the gunbattle ended. |
| Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:17:10 EST Worldwide hunt for terror attack mastermind |
| Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison. Jamal Ahmed Badawi was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in plotting the attack that claimed the lives of 17 U.S. sailors. |
| Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:10:53 EST Congressman collapses at funeral |
| U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders was taken to a Vermont hospital Sunday after collapsing at a service for a soldier killed in Iraq, hospital officials said. |
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