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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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| Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:05:47 GMT Steelers Win Fifth Super Bowl Title (AP) |
 AP - Nearly all the Pittsburgh Steelers split the driving on this super Bus ride. From Willie Parker's record-setting run to the Antwaan Randle El-to-Hines Ward trickery, from coach Bill Cowher's validation to Ike Taylor's key interception, everyone contributed. His teammates did so well in Sunday's 21-10 Super Bowl victory over the Seattle Seahawks that Jerome Bettis barely was needed during his homecoming and farewell.
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| Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:45:15 GMT Lebanon Apologizes to Denmark for Protests (AP) |
 AP - Lebanon apologized Monday to Denmark after thousands of rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to its diplomatic mission in Beirut in the most violent of escalating worldwide protests over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers.
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| Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:37:01 GMT Cole Mastermind Escapes From Yemen Prison (AP) |
 AP - An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.
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