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Abbas Names New Security Chief

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (search), who is trying to reform his ineffectual security apparatus, on Tuesday named a new head of the powerful agency in charge of reining in militants, officials said. The new chief of the Preventive Security Service is Rashid Abu Shbak, who …

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Abbas, Sharon Trade Barbs

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (search) complained in remarks published Wednesday that the Israeli government is inciting against him and that it has violated agreements reached at a summit in February. It was Abbas’ harshest public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (search) since the Palestinian …

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Smoking Tied to Multiple Sclerosis Progression

Cigarette smoking has already been identified as a risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). Now new research for the first time also implicates smoking in the progression of the degenerative disease. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported that current and past smokers with multiple sclerosis were more …

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