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As the horror of Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel’s rocket launches as “an excessive use of force”. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a “terrorist” act. Rudd’s move to ‘recognise’ Israel’s national day criticised

Pubs and bars should be forced to start selling smaller glasses of wine again, an MP says. MP calls for smaller wine glasses

Doctors hope to use the body’s own nerves to bridge the gap in the spinal cord left by paralysing injuries. Spinal injury ‘bypassed’ by nerve

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A family believes a cotton wool bud, stuck in a boy’s ear as a toddler, caused nine years of partial deafness. Deaf boy’s cotton wool bud ‘cure’

In his election night acceptance speech, PM Kevin Rudd said that all of Labor’s policy now becomes a “plan of action” for the incoming Labor government. As to Labor’s oft repeated promise to “tear up Work Choices”, their plans — as far as they actually go — are detailed in the Forward with Fairness: Policy Implementation Plan, released by the then Labor opposition in August. Labor’s real ‘plan of action’

HRH Student Health InsuranceChoate Students Enroll and Pay Online for Fall/Spring; Manual Enrollment for Fall/Spring; Enroll and Pay Online for Summer; Manual Enrollment Summer

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Push Comes to Shove
Music by John Hammond
Only Blues Music, 2007
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The jammed crowd of marchers on December 6 in Cochabamba took an hour and a half to walk past the window of our office, from start to finish. By the time that the dense snake of supporters President Evo Morales wound its way through the city centre and gathered as a single throng in the Central Plaza, it easily numbered 10,000 or more. It was the largest gathering I have seen in the plaza since the high tide of the “water revolt” in April 2000. It was also completely peaceful. BOLIVIA: Bolivia: The other Cochabamba rises

Many GPs are confused about when to refer women with breast cancer concerns as urgent cases, a survey says. Cancer referral ‘confusing’ GPs

Pregnant women must boost their vitamin D intake during winter to ward off rickets in children, say ministers. Doctors fear rickets resurgence

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