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But if they get involved on the liberal side of the divide - as the American bishops did on nuclear weapons and economics in 1980s, or when they oppose capital punishment - they're great moral authorities demonstrating a surge in public opinion.

Clay Waters finds that case of the gymnastic splits again today at TimesWatch: Reporter Nina Bernstein evidently caught the spirit of the weekend protests by illegal immigrants and their supporters in Los Angeles, judging by the positive tone of her Monday article, "In the Streets, Suddenly, An Immigrant Groundswell"....Bernstein gushes in the next sentence: "But if events of recent days hold true, they will be facing much more than that.

Rallies in support of immigrants around the country have attracted crowds that have astonished even their organizers.

More than a half-million demonstrators marched in Los Angeles on Saturday, as many as 300,000 in Chicago on March 10, and - in between - tens of thousands in Denver, Phoenix, Milwaukee and elsewhere..."Supporters of the illegal immigrants outnumber opponents 7-1 in Bernstein's story, with Dan Stein of Federal for American Immigration Reform given a single blunt sentence of dissent compared to 14 sentences of quotes from pro-immigration sources.The Times also gives a religious ...

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Majority of veterans with spinal cord injury report chronic pain, pg.

573 In a telephone survey of veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI), 76 percent of participants reported chronic pain.

A group of veterans with SCI who received care from one regional Department of Veterans Affairs SCI Center during a 3-year period completed a telephone survey about pain frequency, duration, intensity, exacerbating factors, and effects on daily activities.

The majority of the chronic pain components occurred daily and lasted most of the day.

Average pain intensity in the week before the interview was high-moderate to severe, while worst pain intensity was severe.

Two-thirds of the chronic pain components interfered with daily activities.

Chronic pain patterns stable in patients with spinal cord injury, pg.

585 In a recent study of pain and spinal cord injury (SCI), investigators found that specific pain patterns (e.g., pain below the level of injury, upper-limb pain in tetraplegia, and severe, persistent pain) were stable in chronic SCI.

They conducted two surveys 18 months apart to examine the stability of pain characteristics and pain-induced interference with sleep and daily activities.

While pain locations, pain descriptors, pain intensities, and temporal aspects were similar between surveys, aching pain and sleep interference significantly increased.

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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b-drug Zyprexa and Humalog for diabetes "facing ongoing challenges." With respect to drugs not yet approved, he believes Arxxant, for diabetic retinopathy, and prasugrel, for acute coronary syndrome, are "high-risk projects." Arxxant may not see approval by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration in a timely fashion this year, the analyst said.

Moreover, prasugrel needs to show that it is superior to Plavix with an "immaterial increase" in bleeding risk.

Plavix is marketed jointly by Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) and Sanofi-Aventis.Risinger trimmed 2006 and 2007 earnings-per-share estimates for Eli Lilly to $3.14 and $3.39, respectively, from $3.15 and $3.41.

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