In the stream of undocumented Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande at the turn of the 20th century, let's focus for a moment on three who become related. They are poor, they have little education, and they don't speak English, but they find work, marry, and settle. Their various children are accepted as citizens of the United States. Among this second generation are Pablo and Maria, who have eight children. One of these children becomes an honors student, enlists for four years in the U.S. Air Force, enters its academy, and in 1982 earns a doctor of law degree at Harvard.
In 2002, The Women's Health Initiative put forth a real shocker: Commonly prescribed post-menopausal hormone therapy increased heart attacks. Overnight, the news debunked the entrenched notion that virtually all women should be taking HT for the rest of their lives. Last week, performing a new analysis on the reams of data collected on the 27,347 women in the scientific trials, investigators reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the cardiac risk of HT rises the further a woman gets from menopause. And, for the group of women who started hormones in their 50s, estrogen, as opposed to the combination of estrogen plus progestin (Prempro), brought no heart risk and maybe even some benefit. One might groan at this seeming flip-flop, but in fact this is an important clarification that should help women make better personal decisions.
It felt like a scene from Mission: Impossible, when defusing the bomb meant cutting the right wire, says Mayo pediatric surgeon Christopher Moir, recalling a high-drama moment in the OR last May. Moir was staring at two identical vessels in the liver shared by conjoined babies Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen and needed to decide which to cut first in his quest to divide their fused organ and separate the 5-month-olds. "One was the liver's major blood vessel. If we cut the blood vessel first, the whole liver would go. The difference was life or death. It got very quiet in the room."
AP - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy." The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday.
AP - In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators."
AP - It all seemed surreal to Zach Johnson. Three clutch birdies on the back nine at the Masters. His name atop the leaderboard. Toppling Tiger Woods. Slipping on the green jacket.
A radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop killing Iraqi forces and focus instead on resisting Americans. His supporters are converging on Najaf, south of the Baghdad, for an anti-American demonstration called by al-Sadr to be held Monday. They walked through the streets chanting in Arabic "No, no to the occupiers. Yes, yes to Islam," and "Iraq will always be independent and free of occupiers," police told CNN.
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