• Patients with a mutant version of the PPAR gamma gene have a 25% higher risk of developing adult-onset diabetes, in which cells stop responding to insulin's orders.

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  • It said "the driver applied the emergency brake as soon as he realised this, but there was insufficient distance in which to stop and avoid trapping the guard who had moved back between the coaches to complete the work associated with the uncoupling".

    BBC: Robert Lund

  • You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

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  • If elected, Mr. Thompson said he would increase the city police force by 2, 000 officers, flood high-crime areas with veterans instead of rookies and fix "stop and frisk, " a tactic in which officers can stop people whom they reasonably suspect of criminal behavior.

    WSJ: Thompson Turns to Bratton

  • As it happens, Toyota later announced that it is planning to install as standard equipment a brake override system in which the brake will stop the car even if the accelerator is pressed simultaneously.

    FORBES: Jerry Flint, Toyota and Big Feet

  • Rubens Barrichello finished sixth for a more-competitive-than-expected Honda, but was excluded for leaving the pits when the lights were red following a dramatic final pit stop in which he was waved away with the fuel hose still attached.

    BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Hamilton wins dramatic F1 opener

  • Cafaro went to court in Canada to force Sunrise, which is headquartered in Toronto, to stop negotiating with HCP.

    FORBES: Healthy Choice

  • Two airline trade associations and the Air Line Pilots Association said they have filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to stop the furloughs, which are scheduled to kick in on Sunday.

    WSJ: Airlines, pilots sue government to stop furloughs

  • Above all, the deal provides a breathing-space in which an international effort to stop people dying of cold and hunger can be launched.

    ECONOMIST: A victory for despots?

  • It was not the stiff white dragonfly GlobalFlyer, a delicate construction of carbon fibre with all its interstices filled with fuel, in which in 2005 he had made the first non-stop solo flight round the world.

    ECONOMIST: Steve Fossett

  • The situation in some ways may be a replay of a 1984 Supreme Court case in which the MPAA tried to stop Sony from selling its Betamax VCR, according to Andrew Bridges, a copyright attorney at Palo Alto, Calif.

    FORBES: Gnutella Could Make Moviemakers Cry

  • We enacted measures to stem the tide of foreclosures in our housing market, helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and helping to stop the broader decline in home values which was eating away at what tends to be a family's largest asset.

    WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth

  • In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop making plutonium, in return for which America and its allies would supply the country with fuel oil and build two Western-designed light-water nuclear reactors (since it is a bit harder to produce weapons-grade materials from such reactors than from the ones North Korea had been building).

    ECONOMIST: Not a final deal, just a start | The

  • Which is why in a time of panic they may well stop lending to any bank which may have a direct or indirect exposure.

    BBC: Why UK banks are not immune to eurozone woes

  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Justice Department have launched "Operation Crash" using undercover agents and electronic surveillance in an effort to stop the black market trade in rhino horns, which has led to poaching and has reduced the world's rhino population by more than 90 percent since 1970.

    WSJ: 3 charged in smuggling horns of endangered rhinos

  • As the Times notes, Dunn rose from a secretary to run the investment firm Barclays Global, and then to serve as chairwoman at HP, only to be forced out at HP for her role in a scandal in which the company spied on reporters and others in an attempt to stop boardroom leaks.

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  • "In a Kerry administration, we will stop being the only advanced nation in the world which fails to understand that health care is not a privilege for the elected and the connected and the wealthy, it is a right for every American, " he said.

    CNN: Kerry vows to halt economic 'squeeze'

  • But in the short term, Draghi seems confident a stop gap is possible which would help "frame expectations" in the markets.

    BBC: A happy ending for the euro?

  • Not surprisingly, Mr. Stills was unable to keep up the pace, though in 1971 during one of the many breaks in CSN's start-and-stop career he formed Manassas, which is well represented in the new collection.

    WSJ: Carry On, Stephen Stills | By Jim Fusilli

  • The big cable companies have all but crushed competition in the private sector and have been attempting to stop communities themselves from building the essential infrastructure in which these companies have been slow to invest.

    FORBES: Why Communities Should Decide What Telecom Networks They Have

  • The Badger Trust, which failed in a legal bid to stop the culls, says vaccination is the way forward.

    BBC: Second badger cull licence issued

  • In which case we really do want to stop people using it.

    FORBES: HFCS Versus Sugar: A Modest Proposal for a Solution

  • There have been calls for more action to be taken in Syria to stop the violence, which has continued despite Mr Annan's six-point peace plan.

    BBC: Syria conflict: Russia's Vladimir Putin stands firm

  • This concert of nations might be institutionalized along the lines of the Proliferation Security Initiative, which aims to stop trafficking in WMD and their related materials and delivery systems.

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  • But Israeli experts tend to give credence to another claim issued in the name of the smaller fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad: they recall a similar multiple explosion at a bus stop for soldiers in 1995 which was Islamic Jihad's doing.

    ECONOMIST: Carnage in Jerusalem

  • Bloomberg's news conference also coincided with a civil trial challenging the constitutionality of one of the city's strategies for taking guns off the street, a tactic known as "stop and frisk" in which officers have halted, questioned and often searched hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent people.

    WSJ: Mayor: Fight crime by being more like NYC

  • Bush said the al Qaeda terrorist network -- a leading suspect in the Madrid bombings, which killed 201 people -- hopes to stop the spread of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

    CNN: Bush: Stay the course on terror war

  • Kadhim Mohammed, an advisor in the ministry of trade, said the decision to stop registering companies - which will prevent any new Turkish firms opening in Iraq, but should not affect existing ones - had "nothing to do with politics".

    MSN: Iraq stops registering Turkish firms amid row over Hashemi

  • It states the station, which started generating electricity in 1971, will stop production in 2010.

    BBC: Wylfa's life 'could be extended'

  • However, the US and EU are against it which should theoretically stop the proposal in its tracks.

    BBC: UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai

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