One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate. The figure is mostly in line with previous assessments. The highest prevalence nearly 45 percent was found in young women within the age range recommended for a new virus-fighting vaccine, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers have estimated that 20 million Americans have some form of HPV. The study concluded that 26.8 percent of U.S. women are infected, a figure that is comparable to earlier estimates using smaller groups. "We expected the prevalence of any HPV infection would be high and that's what we found," said CDC researcher Dr. Eileen Dunne, the study's lead author. ...
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Editor - 12:41:00 02-27-07
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 China Disputes Cheney's Pronouncements About Its Military Ambitions |
China rejected criticism by Vice President Dick Cheney about its military ambitions, saying Tuesday that it is a force for stability in the world. Cheney, on a swing through Asia last week, said some of Beijing's actions were at odds with its words about its military expansion being peaceful. He pointed to last month's anti-satellite test in which China fired a missile into a defunct weather satellite, making it just the third nation to use a weapon beyond the Earth's atmosphere. In China's first response to Cheney's comment, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China was opposed to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "China adheres to the road of peaceful development and we are an important force in the maintenance of peace and stability in the world and the region," Qin said in a regular news conference. "Our positive and important role on the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula is clear evidence of that." ...
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Editor - 12:38:00 02-27-07
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| Stocks plunge on growth fears |
Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, sending the benchmark S&P 500 index to its biggest one-day slide in more than 3-1/2 years as a sell-off in China's equity market fanned worries that stock valuations there are too high and some data indicated U.S. economic growth may slow. With an hour left to trade, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points. But within minutes, the Dowcut some of that loss by more than 100 points. Traders said the late-hour slide may have been precipitated by program trades heading toward the close. "As the afternoon has progressed, there seems to be a sense of panic among some professional investors. There's talk about margin calls," said Andre Bakhos, president of Princeton Financial Group in Princeton, New Jersey. "There seems to be just an air of nothing is safe anymore, there's nowhere to go and people are rotating into bonds as a safe haven." ...
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Editor - 12:32:00 02-27-07
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| Reports Differ On Iraq Soccer Field Blast Iraqi Officials: 18 Boys Killed In Car Bombing; U.S. Military Reports Injuries In "Controlled Detonation" |
car bomb exploded near a park popular with young soccer players, killing at least 18 boys in a city west of Baghdad known as a center of the Sunni insurgency, police and Iraqi state television said Tuesday. But the reports were complicated by a separate announcement by the U.S. military that 30 civilians and one Iraqi soldier were injured in a "controlled detonation" of explosives southeast of the same city, Ramadi. No deaths occurred, the military said. It was not immediately clear if there were two separate blasts or whether there were disputes over the casualty toll from the same explosion. The blast outside the park occurred in central Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency, near an area popular for soccer. The victims were boys aged 10 to 15, police said in the city, about 70 miles west of Baghdad. The bomb-rigged car blew apart in the afternoon while the boys were playing, police said. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/iraq/main2519665.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2519665
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Editor - 11:01:00 02-27-07
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| Rice: U.S. joining Iraq in inviting Iran and Syria to 'neighbors meeting' |
The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday."We hope that all governments seize this opportunity to improve their relations with Iraq and to work for peace and stability in the region," Rice said in remarks prepared for delivery to a Senate committee. Excerpts were released in advance by the State Department.The move reflects a change of approach by the Bush administration, which previously had resisted calls by members of Congress and by a bipartisan Iraq review group to include Iran and Syria in diplomatic talks on stabilizing Iraq....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-02-27-iraq-nations_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 10:51:00 02-27-07
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| Clinton forgets to declare $5m family charity. And they expect you to believe this is the smartest woman in the world |
Hillary Clinton suffered an embarrassment in her campaign for the Democratic nomination today when it was reported that she did not fully disclose her finances in her annual Senate ethics report.The Washington Post reported that Ms Clinton had failed to include a family charity she operates with Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, in her report for the last five years.The Clintons established the charity in 2001 and have donated more than $5m (£2.54m) over the years, deducted from their taxable income. The foundation, which lists Hillary Clinton as treasurer and secretary, has given $1.25m to their church, universities, the Unicef tsunami fund, charities in the memory of Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin, and a women's development organisation....
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