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| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST Coffee does not increase risk of high blood pressure |
| Go ahead, ladies, ask for that extra shot of espresso in your morning latte. The caffeine jolt might spike your blood pressure for a short time—until lunch, perhaps—but it won't have a lasting effect, according to a study out this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study followed more than 155,000 women for 12 years, asking them every couple of years about their consumption of caffeinated beverages and whether they had been diagnosed with high blood pressure by a doctor. Researchers found no association between total caffeine intake and high blood pressure. |
| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST The New Jersey results |
| First, a complaint about the way New Jersey officials post election results on the Web—and a caveat about what follows. New Jersey didn't start posting election results on the Web until after I went to bed last night, and its current postings are more incomplete than the returns reported by the Associated Press. Also, New Jersey, for no good reason, posts the returns for each candidate on separate pages, which makes calculations of percentages tedious (thank goodness there are only 21 counties!), and each candidate in this case includes not only Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Doug Forrester but all eight nuisance party candidates, who among them received about 3.5 percent of the vote. I say about because these returns are incomplete. I find that turnout in Hudson County was down 38 percent from 2001—highly unlikely—and that turnout in Atlantic and Cape May counties was down 10 percent. That probably means that most of the precincts left to report are in those counties. Since Hudson County is heavily Democratic and Atlantic County leans that way, while Cape May County is usually Republican, that means that Corzine's final percentage will probably be a little higher and Forrester's a little lower than the numbers I've used here. Also, I've calculated these percentages in tenths but report them rounded off as whole percentages. Given the fact that at least some of them will be different when the final results are in, I think that reporting percentages in tenths is an exercise in spurious precision. |
| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST Critic in Chief: Now that's what I call a presidential press conference! |
| Note: Commander in Chief—fact based or totally fictional? Each Wednesday, our White House correspondent will cast a critical eye at the previous night's episode of the popular new ABC drama starring Geena Davis as that very nice President Mackenzie Allen and Donald Sutherland as that not-so-nice Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton. Walsh has covered the White House for U.S. News since 1986. |
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| Blair defeated on 90 days |
| · 291 vote for 90-day amendment; 322 against · 49 Labour MPs rebel · MPs back 28-day detentions · Blair: I won't resign. |
| Explosions rock Jordan hotels |
| 11pm: Officials say at least 57 people have been killed in hotel explosions in the capital Amman. |
| Selectors opt for Cook |
| Alastair Cook called up as cover for England after decision on Michael Vaughan's fitness is delayed again. |
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| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:28:06 EST Death toll rising after triple terror blast |
| Three nearly simultaneous explosions at hotels used by westerners in Amman killed at least 67 people, Jordan's deputy prime minister said. The blasts were all at U.S.-based chains; a Radisson -- where a wedding party was reportedly caught in the blast -- a Grand Hyatt, and a Days Inn. "Al Qaeda tried before... and this could be one of those times when they were able to bypass our security forces," Jordan's House speaker said. |
| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:43:18 EST Lawmakers spar with big oil execs |
| CEOs from the nation's biggest oil companies sparred with lawmakers today at a Senate hearing on this year's jump in oil prices and record industry profits. "To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California. "Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing." |
| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:21:27 EST Prosecutor: Andrea Yates to get new trial |
| Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted of drowning her children in a bathtub, will receive a new trial on capital murder charges after an appeals court refused to reinstate her murder convictions. Yates' attorney George Parnham says a new trial is a mixed blessing, because Yates will have to relive the horror of her children's deaths, but added, "She needs to be found not guilty by reason of insanity." |
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