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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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| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:51:58 EST Wedding party caught in terror attack |
| Three near-simultaneous hotel bombs killed at least 67 people in Amman, Jordan's deputy prime minister said. The blasts were at hotels used by Westerners; a Grand Hyatt, a Days Inn and a Radisson -- where a wedding party was caught in the blast. "This could be one of those times when [al Qaeda was] able to bypass our security forces," Jordan's House speaker said. |
| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:59:37 EST Blair suffers major defeat on anti-terror plans |
| British Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a crucial parliamentary vote on controversial new anti-terrorism legislation that would have allowed terrorist suspects to be held without charge for up to 90 days. |
| Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:22:39 EST Reporter at center of CIA leak probe retires |
| New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who went to jail for refusing to reveal her source during an investigation into the 2003 outing of a CIA operative, has retired from "the old gray lady," the newspaper announced Wednesday. |
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