The findings in children offer hope against grimmer figures predicted by previous research

Over the past seven years, the prevalence of obesity has hovered at around 36% for adults and at about 17% among children and adolescents,moncler jackets two separate CDC research teams reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings in children offer hope against grimmer figures predicted by previous research, Cynthia Ogden, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics, and colleagues wrote.

"Some have suggested that the prevalence of obesity among children will reach 30% by 2030, but the data presented herein suggest that the rapid increases in obesity prevalence seen in the 1980s and 1990s have not continued in this decade and may be leveling off," they wrote.
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Still, certain groups of kids -- particularly teenage boys -- may be at greater risk of obesity than others, they warned. Between 1999 and 2010, this group appeared to drive an increase in obesity prevalence, they reported.

For their study, Ogden and colleagues looked at data on 4,111 children and adolescents from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2010 and compared it with earlier data from the study series.

During the most recent time period, they found cheap moncler jackets 16.9% of children ages 2 to 19 were obese, and the prevalence was higher among males than females (18.6% versus 15%, P=0.01).

It also was higher among Hispanic and black children than whites, they reported (21.1% and 24.3%, respectively, versus 14%).

Even though childhood obesity rose in the 1980s and 1990s, the researchers said, there were no significant changes in prevalence between 2003 and 2010.

There was, however, a significant increase in obesity prevalence between 1999 and 2010 among males (OR 1.05, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.10), which was largely driven by teenage boys. Those ages 12 to 19 were the only age group to have a significant increase in obesity during that time (P=0.04).

The researchers also found that 31.8% of children and teens were overweight or obese in the last year of the survey.

The adult study found that obesity in that group also appears to be flat-lining, with no significant changes in prevalence between 2003 and 2010. That's contrary to the 20 years prior -- from 1980 to 2000 -- when prevalence was moncler on the rise, the researchers reported.

It had been flat prior to that, between 1960 and 1980, they said.

Like the childhood obesity researchers, Katherine Flegal, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics, and colleagues also used data from NHANES 2009-2010, but they studied data on 5,926 adults. They also analyzed data from previous NHANES studies from 1999-2008 totaling 22,847 adults.

The overall prevalence of obesity in the most recent period was 35.7% among men and 35.8% among women, they found, and ranged from 36.2% in white men to 38.8% in black men, and from 32.2% in white women to 58.5% in black women.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity combined in 2009-2010 was 68.8%, and the mean body mass index [BMI] for both men and women was 28.7.

Although obesity prevalence didn't rise for all women between 1999 and 2010, there were significant increases among black and Mexican American women, they reported (P=0.04 and P=0.046).

Men, on the other hand, had a significant jump in obesity prevalence over that time (AOR 1.04, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.06, P<0.001). However, rates appeared to cheap moncler plateau around 2003 for both men and women, they found, noting that prior "increases [in obesity] appear to be slowing or leveling off."

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That's no surprise to people who've gone from pharmacy to pharmacy trying to fill their child's prescription -- or to moncler jackets those who've had to pay high prices for brand-name drugs to treat ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

The drugs in question are stimulants that calm and focus people with ADHD. The shortages have affected the two main classes of ADHD drugs: methylphenidates and amphetamines.

Some popular drugs, such as Novartis' Ritalin LA, are in short supply in some dosages but not in others. Other drugs, such as Teva's extended-release amphetamine, are on back order. Still others, such as Shire's Adderall XR and its two "authorized generics" are in good supply, according to the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

One reason for the shortage is extremely high demand for the drugs. While people with ADHD make up nearly all of the legitimate market, there's a huge demand for off-label and illicit use of stimulant drugs. Many companies say they simply can't keep up with this demand.

So why don't the companies simply make more ADHD drugs? One reason is that these drugs are controlled substances. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) decides how much of each controlled substance the U.S. legitimately needs -- and then sets quotas on how much manufacturers can produce.

Since 2007, the U.S. has been limited to 50,000 kilograms of methylphenidate. The amphetamine quota went up to 18,600 kilograms in 2009. Several drugmakers have publicly stated that these constraints have cheap moncler jackets limited their ability to meet demand.

"The DEA's point of view is there is plenty of the active ingredient out there," DEA spokeswoman Barbara Carreno tells WebMD. "The DEA is tasked with making sure there is enough for legitimate need without making so much (that) it is diverted for illicit purposes. So we try to ascertain the legitimate medical need in America and make sure there is enough out there to meet it."

Last month, the DEA announced that the 2012 quota for methylphenidate will increase to 56,000 kilograms, and the quota for amphetamine will increase to 25,300 kilograms. It remains to be seen whether these increases will ease ADHD drug shortages.
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The shortage of ADHD drugs is a symptom of a larger problem facing the nation's drug supply. Supplies of many different kinds of drugs are becoming hard to predict.

According to IMS, a medical informatics firm, more than 80% of drug shortages are generics. Cancer drugs are particularly likely to be in short supply. They made up 28% of all shortages in 2010 to 2011, the FDA reports.

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In October 2011, the FDA issued a special report on drug shortages. Among its findings:

From 2005 to 2010, the number of drug shortages tripled from 61 to 178.
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Manning threw three touchdown passes, including a momentum-grabbing 74-yarder to rising star Victor Cruz, and the Giants claimed the final spot in the NFL playoffs, beating the Cowboys 31-14 on Sunday night to win the NFC East moncler jackets.

"We've had a lot of ups and down, but when our team needed it most we responded," said Cruz, who capped his team-record setting season with six catches for 178 yards. "We were able to keep level-headed when we were on the four-game skid."

New York (9-7) won three of its final four games for their 65-year-old coach and earned a wild-card game at home next Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons (10-6).

The Giants, who opened the season 6-2, haven't won a playoff game since beating the-then unbeaten New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in February 2008. However, they seem to be peaking much as they did at the end of that regular season.

Linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka believes the Giants are capable of making another run after dominating an all-or-nothing game that left Cowboys owner Jerry Jones frustrated.

"There is no doubt," Kiwanuka said. "That's what we are setting ourselves up for. We went a roundabout way of doing it, but once you're in, you're in."

The Cowboys (8-8) are out after losing four of their final five games in their first full season under coach Jason Garrett.

"It's extremely painful and it's a damn shame," Jones said. "We have a good team and I thought we would be going to the playoffs, but that didn't happen. We have to be able to take some of the good with the bad and move on. We did a lot of good things this year, but to point to one thing why this happened would be subjective. We're 8-8 and we have to be better than that cheap moncler."

Dallas was its own worst enemy with the season on the line. It missed tackles on all three of the Giants' three first-half touchdowns, failed to recover two fumbles within its grasp in the half and failed to convert on a Tony Romo sneak on fourth-and-1 at the Giants 10 while trailing 21-7.

Romo, who played with a bruised right hand, moved the Cowboys in the second half, but touchdown passes of 34 yards and 6 yards to Laurent Robinson weren't enough to rally Dallas.

"You can't make excuses,' said Romo, who finished 29 of 37 for 289 yards and one interception. "Either you win or you go home. Give them credit for coming in here and being ready. This is not going to sit well with me or anyone else on this team. It should fuel the fire to come back, but right now, it hurts."

The shorter touchdown pass to Robinson got Dallas within a 21-14 with 10:15 to play, but Cruz, the second-year pro from nearby Paterson who has become a fan favorite with a big plays and salsa celebrations, came through again.

Cruz boxed-out cornerback Orlando Scandrick on 44-yard third-down jump-ball catch and caught another for 20 yards to set up a 28-yard Lawrence Tynes' field goal. Manning iced the Giants' second win over Dallas in four weeks with a 4-yard TD pass to Hakeem Nicks with 3:41 to play cheap burberry outlet 2012.

How 5 border nations are reacting to Assad's crackdown

But with Russia dismissing any attempt at international action against the Assad regime as hypocritical and “immoral,”moncler jackets the likelihood of anything being done soon appears slight.

This has prompted the United States and other parties frustrated by the dim prospects of meaningful international action against Mr. Assad to draw stark contrasts between the Security Council’s muted response to the crisis and recent steps taken by other countries and institutions.

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“Through condemnations issued by the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council and bold steps taken by the Arab League and the government of Turkey, international bodies are starting to match their severe disapproval of Syria’s bloody crackdown with concrete steps to bring it to an end,” Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said following a Security Council session on Syria Monday. “It is past time for the UN Security Council to do the same.”

The US statement followed an urgent plea by Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, for the Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for investigation of alleged crimes against humanity.

The death toll from nine months of violence in Syria has surpassed 5,000, while thousands more Syrians have been detained or are unaccounted for, Ms. Pillay told the Security Council. As she did at a briefing for cheap moncler jackets the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva earlier this month, Pillay underscored in particular the high price that Syrian children are paying in the violence.

The Arab League and Turkey have imposed sanctions on Syria, but the Security Council has been unable to overcome a Russian “nyet” to any action against Syria, with which Russia maintains strong ties.

Even Monday’s merely informational Security Council session only took place because France threatened to call for a vote on Syria, potentially embarrassing Russia by forcing its veto, if the Syria briefing did not proceed, UN analysts said.

The wrangling at the UN took place as thousands of Syrians closed businesses and boycotted schools in protest against the government crackdown.

But neither internal events in Syria nor actions by regional actors like the Arab League appear to be swaying Russia. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that international condemnation of Assad would be “immoral” when the regime is facing the violence of “armed extremist groups.”

Mr. Lavrov said last month that Syria was in a civil war, and that it was not the international community’s place to side against the government. But that has not stopped Russia from showing support for Assad, for example by recently sending warships to fly the Russian flag in Syrian ports.

The US, on the other hand, has declared that Assad is no longer legitimate and must step down. Ambassador Rice repeated that position Monday, saying, giubbotti moncler outlet“Let there be no doubt: Assad’s days in power are numbered.” The days that pass before that occurs, she added, will determine how many more Syrian children die in the country’s violence.

The court is likely to hear the case by April and issue a decision before July

The 2010 Arizona measure requires police to arrest people they stop whom they suspect lack authorization to be in the U.S., and includes other provisions intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state. U.S. courts have blocked much of the Arizona law from taking effect, moncler jackets agreeing with the Justice Department that it undermines federal authority over immigration.

The court is likely to hear the case by April and issue a decision before July, the same time frame for its review of President Barack Obama's 2010 health-care overhaul. Conservative activists and Republican officials from 26 state governments contend the health law exceeds federal authority.

The scheduling could give both cases a significant role in next year's presidential and congressional elections—and could make the Supreme Court, certain to be criticized by the losers in each case, itself an issue. Four of the nine justices are in their 70s, suggesting that the next president could have at least one vacancy to fill on the closely divided court.

While the court's eventual ruling can't be predicted, a decision in the heat of the campaign will increase attention on the immigration issue. The White House sees the development as a plus with Hispanic voters, who strongly oppose these state laws and are likely to be energized regardless of the outcome, according to a person familiar with White House officials' thinking. Mr. Obama is counting on strong turnout and support from Hispanics to offset expected losses among white voters.

But action in the Supreme Court could cut against the White House with voters who favor these statutes and may resent the fact that the Obama administration has worked to overturn them.

Some analysts say the Supreme Court often appears too abstract cheap moncler jackets an issue for most voters.

"The actual presidential election will be four or five months" after the decisions are issued, said David Yalof, a political scientist at the University of Connecticut. By then, "the public generally turns its attention to the economy or national security, and those issues generally trump the court" for independent voters likely to be the focus for both Mr. Obama and his Republican challenger.

Arizona's illegal-immigration measure, officially titled the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act and known as SB 1070, reflected outrage among tea-party conservatives over what they considered lax enforcement by federal immigration authorities. Similar laws were introduced in other states, including Alabama, where officials were recently embarrassed after executives from German and Japanese car makers that the state had pushed to bring there were arrested for failing to produce immigration papers.

Those incidents and a backlash against the Arizona law have prompted second thoughts among some backers of state crackdowns. Last month, voters in Mesa, Ariz., recalled state Sen. Russell Pearce, the Republican firebrand behind SB 1070.

His recall indicates he alienated voters who saw their state suffer economically from the controversial law and who came to see the focus on illegal immigration as a diversion from more pressing issues.

In May, over the objection of the Obama administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Supreme Court upheld another measure sponsored by Mr. Pearce that forced employers that repeatedly hired illegal immigrants to go out of business. The justices voted 5-4 along ideological lines to give expansive effect to a federal provision authorizing states to consider compliance with immigration rules when issuing business licenses.

Although that opinion, by Chief Justice John Roberts, sympathized with states seeking to control their borders,moncler 2012 it is unclear how the justices will read separate provisions of federal immigration law at issue in the SB 1070 case.

Frustration was also evident at Medvedev’s talk of an investigation

The posting quickly went viral, and drew more than 8,000 mostly offended and even offensive comments in a little over six hours,moncler jackets revealing the depth of the disillusionment with Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and their government. Tens of thousands of Russians spoke up in demonstrations across the country Saturday, protesting the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections, and they apparently had no intention of returning to their former silence.

“Shame!” was a frequent comment, along with “You’re pathetic.”

The commenters’ posts Sunday revealed astonishing candor and courage. It’s one thing to stand in a Moscow crowd of up to 40,000, according to estimates, and call for new elections. It’s another matter to advertise your anger and disgust on the president’s Facebook page, where it doesn’t take a KGB agent to make a quick identification.

In posting on Facebook, Medvedev was attempting to respond to Russians who organized Saturday’s protest online, who are angry because they suspect the election was rigged in favor of the United Russia Party.

“I agree neither with the slogans, nor the statements voiced at the protests,” Medvedev wrote. “Nevertheless, I have ordered checks into all the reports from polling stations, regarding the compliance with the election laws.”

One reason for the skepticism that greeted his remarks: Medvedev is the head of United Russia and was the top candidate on its party list in the election. He nominates the chief prosecutor and judges, who might not be eager to pursue those working on behalf of the ruling party.

Medvedev, famous for tweeting and carrying an iPad, routinely orders investigations into all sorts of matters: the beating a year ago of the journalist Oleg Kashin, the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the forest fires that burned out of control in 2010, a blaze at a retirement home in 2009. Nothing has come of those.

When he blandly announced Sept. 24 that he would relinquish the presidency after one term so that Putin could run in March and take it back, he finally lost his credibility among Russians who had been counting on him as a progressive counterpoint to Putin.

“I haven’t noticed anything good coming from your presidency,” one commenter wrote Sunday. “And on my meager doctor’s salary it has become even worse. Leave now, cheap moncler jackets and don’t wait for the Tahrir Spring. It is going to happen, I promise you.”

Frustration was also evident at Medvedev’s talk of an investigation, when protesters were demanding new elections. “Have you lost your mind? How many do you need? 100,000 at the Kremlin?”

On Thursday, Vladimir Churov, head of the Central Election Commission and a longtime Putin ally, said he asked prosecutors to look into the videos posted on the Internet that showed purported . He promised that infractions would be pursued but suggested that many may have been faked, filmed in someone’s apartment. “Those who created, commissioned or sponsored them will be held to account,” he said.

That reminded one commenter of Putin’s accusations that same day against Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying that she criticized the election before the vote was counted and signaled the protests to begin. Earlier, Putin attacked Golos, Russia’s only independent monitor, because it receives European and U.S. grants.

The commenter said the United States had probably arranged for the huge demonstrations to be filmed in someone’s apartment.

A sentiment heard from many at Saturday’s protest in Moscow was echoed in a comment on Facebook: “I don’t know anyone among my colleagues, neighbors, acquaintances and friends who voted for United Russia. We all have a sense of the real total.”

One comment in particular reflected the tone of the protest, which was dominated by the middle-class and the well educated.

“Obviously, he doesn’t agree with Gauss,” one commenter wrote disdainfully, referring to pioneering mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who lived 200 years ago. Disenchanted Russians argue that United Russia’s reported election results are so improbable as to violate Gauss’ groundbreaking work on statistics.

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At Saturday’s rally, Artyom Zhilin, a 36-year-old psychotherapist, and his wife, Alla, a 27-year-old craft-maker, were holding a large sign that depicted Gauss with goat horns coming out of his head. The message: Putin’s supporters like to insult the opposition by calling them goats, and since Gauss’ work doesn’t square with the vote tallies, he must also be against Putin — and thus a goat.

I'm just telling you my perspective

Cuban, who has never been shy about publicly disagreeing with Stern during his 11-year tenure as the Dallas Mavericks' owner,moncler jackets said allowing the NBA-owned New Orleans Hornets to trade their superstar hours after the league's new labor agreement was ratified would have been hypocritical.
"The message is we went through this lockout for a reason," Cuban said Friday on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's Ben and Skin Show. "Again, I'm not speaking for Stern. He's not telling me his thought process. I'm just telling you my perspective, having gone through all this. There's a reason that we went through this lockout, and one of the reasons is to give small-market teams the ability to keep their stars and the ability to compete."

Stern cited "basketball reasons" for denying the proposed trade that would have sent Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets and given the Hornets three accomplished, starter-caliber players in Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Lamar Odom as well as point guard Goran Dragic and a 2012 first-round pick that Houston had acquired from the New York Knicks.

However, Cuban's rationale for blocking the trade is all about business.

"We just had a lockout, and one of the goals of the lockout was to say that small-market teams now have a chance to keep their players, and the rules were designed to give them that opportunity," Cuban said. "So to all of a sudden have a league-owned team trade their best player, particularly after having gone out and sold a ton of tickets in that market, that's not the kind of signal you want to send.

"Then, part two of that is all the rules of what you can and can't do under the new CBA weren't finalized until yesterday, so how do you really make a strategic decision until you know all the rules?"

Cuban has been trying for years to trade for Paul, Men - moncler jackets the four-time All-Star point guard who dominated the Mavericks during the first round of the 2008 playoffs. However, he said he would have understood the league's decision to deny the trade even if the Mavericks would have agreed to a deal to get Paul.

"I mean, obviously, I wouldn't have been happy, but I would have understood because it was a conversation a lot of owners had long before the Laker deal was consummated," Cuban said. "It was like, 'Look, sure, I'd love him. Give him to me in a heartbeat.' But the whole idea of the lockout was to prevent stuff like that.

"Players will always have the right to choose what they want to do as a free agent, but the players agreed to rules that said, 'You know what? Let's give the home team, the incumbent team an extra advantage.' And that's how the rules were designed. I think they're going to work."

Nevertheless, Cuban admitted voting against the collective bargaining agreement. He hoped for a system that would allow the Mavericks to keep their championship team largely intact while maintaining some flexibility to make roster upgrades, as they'd done in the past.

Instead, the Mavs will lose Tyson Chandler, J.J. Barea, Caron Butler and probably DeShawn Stevenson after those players declined short-term contract offers from the team. As a result, the Mavs will be under the salary cap next summer for the first time in years, putting www.giubbottimoncleroutlet2012.com them in position to pursue a free-agent superstar such as Paul, Dwight Howard or Deron Williams.

But Cuban said that isn't the Mavs' sole goal as they prepare to remodel their roster around All-NBA fixture and Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki.

Human brains continue to develop through early adulthood

Brain scans of adolescents who suffered physical abuse and neglect showed differences in the part that controls executive function -- mental processes such as planning, organizing and focusing on details -- according to a study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.moncler jackets Changes were also seen in brain areas that regulate emotions and impulses, the study said.

About 3.7 million U.S. children are assessed for child abuse or neglect each year, but the number may be higher as many cases don't come to the attention of professionals, the authors said. The research, which evaluated teenagers who hadn't been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, suggests abuse or neglect victims be monitored to reduce the risk of disorders like depression and addiction, researchers said.

"What these findings show is that experiences that people have early in life can really subsequently and fundamentally alter the way their brain develops," said Philip Fisher, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal. "These kids, in spite of the fact that they didn't have actual disorders, have the potential to be very vulnerable for problems over the course of their development."

Human brains continue to develop through early adulthood, particularly the area that regulates emotions and executive function, said Fisher, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oregon and a senior scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, in a Dec. 2 telephone interview.


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Scans showed that girls were more likely to have differences in brain areas related to emotional processing, making them more vulnerable to mood disorders like depression, while boys had changes to areas for impulse control, which could make them more vulnerable to drug and alcohol addictions, said study author Hilary Blumberg, an associate professor of psychiatry and diagnostic radiology in the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.


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Those figures in particular are difficult for Romney

There’s also clear, committed strength for Ron Paul to make him a factor and delegate-winner in the state.

And though there are new supporters up for moncler jackets grabs with Herman Cain out of the race, there’s evidence that the candidates who’ve pinned their hopes on strong showings in Iowa — Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum — are losing traction completely.

The NBC News/Marist College poll released Sunday showed Gingrich leading the GOP presidential field with 26 percent support of likely Iowa caucus goers, eight points ahead of Mitt Romney, at 18 percent. These results tracked with a Des Moines Register poll from Saturday, with Gingrich at 25 and Romney at 16 percent.

Worse news for Romney: on the economy, his signature issue, the Register poll found that Iowans are far from flocking to him. Gingrich was the choice of 22 percent asked which candidate “best able to turn the economy around.” Only 20 percent said Romney.

The Register poll found Paul is seen by a plurality of those surveyed to be the most fiscally responsible (32 percent), the most principled (24 percent) but also the most negative (19 percent).

A whopping 58 percent in the NBC/Marist poll said Gingrich is both the most knowledgeable about the world and the most experienced, striking figures for a leading candidate in a time when the anti-Washington, anti-government forces are running deep in Republican politics.

Those figures in particular are difficult for Romney, said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

“Gingrich really gets to the core of the Romney rationale, which has been experience and electability,” he said. “Those are the numbers that have changed the most for Romney since October.”

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“He speaks in sentences and paragraphs and people are willing to listen to that right now,” he said. “He makes sense. And people who would not have trusted him before are grudgingly start to extend that trust to him. That is extremely difficult to do with the typical voter in Iowa.”

The Iowa Poll also showed 15 percent of likely caucus goers said Romney is the candidate they like the least, tied for the highest percentage with Michele Bachmann. Only 6 percent said they like Gingrich the least.

And illustrating the ceiling the former Massachusetts governor appears to have hit, the NBC/Marist poll shows how many Republicans have written him off. Almost a quarter – 24 percent – of likely caucus goers said Romney would be unacceptable as the Republican nominee and 28 percent said he would be acceptable only with reservations.

Sixteen percent said that Gingrich would be unacceptable, with 27 percent having reservations.

But there’s room for those reservations to grow. The NBC/Marist poll asked Iowans it would be acceptable for the GOP nominee to have earned “earned millions of dollars advising Freddie Mac,” as Gingrich did. It found 56 percent of Iowa Republicans surveyed said no. Another 47 percent said it would not be acceptable for the nominee to support “limited amnesty for some illegal immigrants,” as Gingrich’s rivals have portrayed his position.

And if Gingrich collapses, like others did before him, the NBC/Marist poll showed Romney’s the one who stands to benefit. He’s the second choice for more would-be Gingrich voters in Iowa and New Hampshire than any other candidate.

Which, taken together with the fluidity of the race to date, may be why the Romney campaign says it’s unfazed by the latest numbers. Asked how the campaign will react to the polls that show Romney falling into second place behind Gingrich, a campaign adviser e-mailed: “Patience. Discipline. Men - moncler jackets Organization. Endorsements. Message. Focus. Life experience.”

But what’s clear is that the people backing Paul, who’s in a statistical tie with Romney for second place in both polls, aren’t going anywhere.

China abstained from the vote

The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday adopted a resolution condemning Syria for cheap moncler jackets as human rights violations, drawing sharp criticism from Damascus, which called it a U.S.-inspired political move.

The non-binding resolution, sponsored by Britain, France and Germany, was approved by a vote of 122-13 with 41 abstentions. It calls on Syrian authorities to implement an Arab League peace plan calling for the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets.

It also calls for the release of political prisoners, an end to attacks on civilians, and allowing observers into the country.

Syria's UN envoy Bashar Ja'afari said the resolution wouldn't benefit Syria and claimed it was a U.S.-inspired political move.

"Although the draft resolution is submitted primarily from three European countries, it is not a secret that the United States of America is the mastermind and main instigator of the political campaign against my country," Ja'afari said.

China abstained from the vote. The country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Wang Min has called on the international community to help ease tensions in Syria, saying that exerting pressure through country-specific resolutions won't resolve differences.

"The international community should play a constructive role in order to create conditions for the easing of tension in Syria," Wang said, adding that China welcomes the mediation plan of the Arab League.

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Quoting a source in the committee, the paper reported that the mini-committee would complete its mission next week and a press conference would be held to clarify the new basic principles for the constitution.

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Berlusconi is widely believed to have already lost the numbers he needs to survive in parliament but he told reporters at a G20 summit in France: "We have a majority which I continue to believe is solid and so we will continue to govern."

The 75-year-old media magnate described party rebels as traitors to the country but said they would return to the fold once he spoke to them, despite the economic crisis that has fuelled an open revolt in his ruling PDL party.

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