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Zoellick: Venezuela economy in trouble
By IOAN GRILLO, Associated Press WriterSat Jun 16, 11:36 PM ET
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. choice to head the World Bank, warned Saturday that Venezuela's economic and political troubles were growing under President Hugo Chavez's leftist government.
"It's a country where economic problems are mounting and we are seeing (that) on the political and press side it's not moving in a healthy direction," Zoellick told a news conference in Mexico City.
Chavez, who has been blessed with high oil prices for most of his eight years in power, insists his socialist policies have improved the lives of poor Venezuelans. The country's economy grew by 10.3 percent last year, the fastest in the region, and government statistics show poverty has declined.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070617/ap_on_bi_ge/mexico_world_bank
General: Stabilized Iraq may take decade
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 41 minutes ago
Stabilizing Iraq could take as long as a decade, says the U.S. commander in Baghdad.
"In fact, typically, I think historically, counterinsurgency operations have gone at least nine or 10 years," Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday. "The question is, of course, at what level."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070618/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq;_ylt=Ao9heBgSIOX_FmqHmMUxe17MWM0F
Skipping insulin for weight risky
By JIM ELLIS, Associated Press WriterSun Jun 17, 1:58 PM ET
Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she was already suffering from bulimia — forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it wasn't enough, and she'd recently put on 20 pounds.
Then one day at a camp for diabetic teens, she heard counselors chew out two girls for practicing "diabulimia" — not taking their insulin so they could lose weight, one of the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.
Don't you realize you could die if you skip your insulin? the counselor scolded. Don't you know you could fall into a coma or damage your kidneys or your eyes?
But that's not what registered with Thill, who has Type 1, or juvenile diabetes. Instead, she focused on this: Skipping insulin equals weight loss. For the next 17 years, diabulimia was her compulsion.
"I took just enough insulin to function," said Thill, now 34, of Magnolia, N.J.
Today, she worries about the long-term damage that may have come from her weight obsession. At 25, a blood vessel hemorrhage in her eye required surgery. At 28, doctors told her she had damaged kidneys.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070617/ap_on_he_me/diet_diabulimia;_ylt=AgT1bDlFD9wCtY84G01AYyDMWM0F
Woman wins $29,000 for topless stroll
35 minutes ago
A woman arrested for exposing her breasts has accepted a $29,000 settlement from the city, her lawyer said.
Jill Coccaro, 27, was arrested on a topless stroll two years ago, despite a 1992 state appeals court ruling that concluded women should have the same right as men to take off their shirts.
Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley, remained in custody for 12 hours before she was told prosecutors were not going to pursue charges.
Her attorney, Jeffrey Rothman, told the Daily News that his client won the civil rights settlement from the city, which did not admit or deny wrongdoing.
"We hope the police learn a lesson and respect the rights of women to go topless," Rothman said.
Feeley told the New York Post that she was not treated well after her Aug. 4, 2005, arrest in Manhattan's Lower East Side section. She claimed in an October lawsuit that a police officer yanked her out of a patrol car by her hair and police took her to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
She told the newspaper she had gone bare-breasted after running the 2004 city marathon without police bothering her.
"I've always just felt that was something natural," Feeley said of going topless. "I've kind of always done it out of practicality."
"Irrefutable Evidence" and Bush-Cheney Media Manipulation
Gareth PorterSat Jun 16, 9:10 PM ET
When Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns declared in Paris this week that there was "irrefutable evidence" that Iran was arming the Taliban forces in Afghanistan, he was unwittingly echoing a previous categorical statement that was aimed at priming public opinion for war.
On September 20, 2002, Dick Cheney said, "We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070617/cm_huffpost/052470;_ylt=Ai7iDxs7csqdnASqHFCwcRrMWM0F
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