How could the American public not be confused about Iraq when our leaders speak of progress but our secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, suffers a triple humiliation, having to circle Baghdad airport for 40 minutes because of mortar and rocket fire, then being helicoptered into the city because driving the deadly bomb-strewn highway is too dangerous, and, finally, having to meet with the Iraqi president in the dark because the power has cut off yet again?
Pink reigns in October, the month to raise national awareness of the 274,900 women who will be diagnosed this year with breast cancer and the 41,000 who will die of advanced disease. Most women fear that this cancer might well be theirs or their daughters' someday and are now passionate about the importance of mammograms to find early disease when it's most curable. But the legacy of pink activism is much greater than its success with early detection. The 20-year burst of intense research it has inspired, coming fortuitously just as the genomics revolution was taking off, is now producing huge payoffs. In the past month alone, there have been advances on two fronts: A powerful new drug for women with the worst form of breast cancer is in the government approval pipeline, and scientists have uncovered new clues to the mechanism behind metastatic breast cancer's spread.
If food is your torture, relief may be on the way. A new pill promises to help people lose weight by taking the edge off the cravings that make dieting so painful. A bonus: Your blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol level might drop, too.
AP - A strong earthquake shook Hawaii early Sunday, jolting residents out of bed and causing a landslide that blocked a major highway. Hundreds of hotel guests and hospital patients were evacuated, and aftershocks kept the state on edge.
AP - Iraq's government indefinitely postponed a much-anticipated national reconciliation conference Sunday as a two-day spree of sectarian revenge killings and insurgent bombings left at least 86 Iraqis dead.
AP - A 22-year-old man has been charged with murdering his parents and three teenage sisters at their home in southeastern Iowa, authorities said Sunday.
Some houses were shaken apart and ceilings tiles tumbled down in hospital rooms when a strong quake rattled Hawaii on Sunday. Landslides and power outages added to the reasons the governor issued a disaster declaration for the islands.
Police in Israel are recommending that the country's president be charged with rape and other crimes against several women, a police announcement said.