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Televised images from the scene of the attack showed the police overwhelmed and seemingly helpless as a crowd of men surged into the compound. One Afghan police officer stood beside the concrete wall of the UN building firing into the air as people crouched on the ground in terror and men clambered on top of the wall to hurl basketball-sized stones into the compound.

Kieran Dwyer, a spokesman for the UN mission in Afghanistan, said attackers shot their way into the compound, set it on fire and stalked the staff members trapped inside. “Our colleagues were hunted down in there,” he said.

Norway said one of the UN victims was Lieutenant-Colonel Siri Skare, a 53-year-old female pilot. Sweden said Joakim Dungel, a 33-year-old Swede who worked at the UN office, was another. A Romanian and four UN guards from Nepal were also killed.

Police arrested the suspected mastermind behindBuy nike running shoes online, the attack, Afghan officials said, adding that he was from Kapisa province, a hotbed of the insurgency about 400 kilometres southeast of Mazar-i-Sharif.

The United Nations Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on the attack, while the American preacher told the British Broadcasting Corporation that he did not feel guilty over the deaths in Mazar. “We are not responsible for their actions,” Mr. Jones said, when asked about the attack.

The march began as a peaceful protest, with some holding banners and chanting anti-American slogans, setting out in an orderly procession from the central mosque of Mazar-i-Sharif following Friday prayers.

“But when they got closer to the compound they got crazy and started throwing rocks,” said Qari Khodrat, a spokesman for the provincial governor. “When they started out, we didn’t see armed people among them but then shooting started from within the crowd of protesters.”

Accounts of what happened when the crowd reached the UN compound were confused and contradictory.

A spokesman for the provincial police chief, Sherzan Durani, said some marchers suddenly wrestled guns away from the guards at the building. Other local officials said armed men were hiding among the protesters and started shooting when the crowd veered toward the UN building. One of the protesters told an Afghan television station that the UN guards were the first to shoot.

Another theory, one that some UN officials Buy nike running shoes online,considered plausible, was that Taliban infiltrated the demonstration and used it as a cover for a bold assault on a symbol of the foreign presence in Afghanistan.

“The insurgents took advantage of the situation to attack the United Nations compound,” said Ata Mohammad Noor, the provincial governor.

In any case, the Afghan police had been warned well in advance of a large and potentially unruly demonstration.

One witness, Reza Amiri, said he had seenBuy nike running shoes online, flyers pasted to the walls of shops around the city on Wednesday and Thursday calling for protests against the wholesale burning of Korans by “American churches.”

But the CIA operatives are also providing information to guide airstrikes aimed at Mr. Qaddafi’s forces and other assets, administration officials have said.

Obama has characterized the coalition taking over new fashion 2011 nike running shoes onlinecommand from the US as very broad-based – encompassing not only NATO but also having the participation of countries from the Arab League. But not only are some NATO countries sitting on the sidelines of the operation – Germany is a prime example – but so far, only three Arab countries have actively joined the coalition, some military analysts point out.

President Bush, some Republican foreign-policy analysts note, was ridiculed for claiming to have assembled an international coalition to invade Iraq when it was largely a US operation. They point out that the Iraq war at one point included military contributions from more than three dozen countries, considerably higher than the Libya operation so far.

But what’s clear, some say, is that Obama’s intention is to put the US in the role of something like best supporting actor. That being a new role for the US, they add, it may take some time to see how this works.

“I think [Obama’s] objective is indeed to draw the US away from the cutting edge of this operation,” says Stefan Halper, a senior fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of International Studies in England. “He wants to save money, and he doesn’t want the US leading a military intervention in a Muslim country for a third time.”

But the fact remains that there are some thingsnew fashion 2011 nike running shoes online that only the US can do. No one should be surprised that the CIA is in Libya, Dr. Halper says, since perhaps the only other intelligence organization that could approach the CIA’s capacities would be the British SAS.

Others say Obama’s intentions may in the end be thwarted, if the Libya operation drags on and outlives the capacities of other militaries involved in the mission. “Neither [the French nor the British] has the ability to sustain operations for any length of time,” says Charles Boyd, a retired US Air Force general now at the Center for the National Interest.

The reality, Mr. Boyd says, is that the “smell” of an international operation eventually seen to go bad would stick to the US. But others suggest that may not matter.

Obama is likely to remain unscathed even if hisnew fashion 2011 nike running shoes online assertions about an American retreat to a “supporting role” in Libya don’t match reality, some observers say.

Mr. Kemp of the Center for the National Interest speaks of a high “capacity of the American public and Congress to live with ambiguity and nuance – as long,” he adds, “as there are no American casualties.”

"It's impossible to put a dollar figure on a human life, especially when you're talking about a drug that has such mild side effects," said Jim Kiefert, a prostate cancer patient and advocate who was part of the Provenge study. "Of all the treatments I've had — with surgery, radiation and hormone treatment — Provenge had fewer side effects than any of them."

But bioethicists who study health care decisions say Medicare's ruling on Provenge mirrors the bias of the overall U.S. health system, which emphasizes expensive treatments over basic medical care. Health care costs account for nearly one fifth of the U.S. economy, more than any other country.

"We tend to put our health care dollars into very high-tech interventions that produce very marginal improvements," said Dr. Steven Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics. "The problem is that we have created a health care system that is uniquely inadequate in terms of access to primary health care, which is where you get the most bang for your buck."

A growing number of biologically  buy Lovers Style Shoes online,engineered cancer drugs are being priced in the $100,000 range, including therapies from Roche and Eli Lilly & Co. Last week, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. received approval for a new melanoma drug that will be priced at roughly $120,000 per patient.

Provenge is the first FDA-approved cancer drug that uses the body's own immune system to fight the disease, offering an alternative to chemotherapy drugs that attack cancerous and healthy cells at the same time. The treatment is intended for prostate cancer that has spread elsewhere in the body and is not responding to hormone therapy or radiation.

Each regimen  buy Lovers Style Shoes online,of Provenge must to tailored to the immune system of the patient using a time-consuming formulation process. Doctors collect special blood cells from each patient that help the immune system recognize cancer as a threat. The cells are mixed with a protein found on most prostate cancer cells and another substance to rev up the immune system, and then given back to the patient as three infusions two weeks apart.

Industry observers say much of the scrutiny of Provenge stems from the current political climate, as voters push lawmakers to cut the deficit and rein in government spending. At the same time, the new health care reform law has stoked debate about how much say the government should have in approving coverage of medical treatments.

Republicans have accused the acting chief of Medicare, Dr. Donald Berwick, of advocating health care rationing, based on statements he made as a professor at Harvard University. President Obama appointed Berwick to the post last year, but Senate Republicans have opposed his confirmation and have urged Obama to nominate someone else.
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Dr. Sean Tunis, a former Medicare official, called Wednesday's decision a case of "the dog that didn't bark."

"You could almost guess that this would be outcome before they even started. So why raise all the anxiety and subject yourself to all the criticism of rationing?" said Tunis, who is director of the Center for Medical Technology Policy in Baltimore.

Medicare officials have said the agency's review of Provenge was aimed at clearing up bureaucratic confusion among Medicare carriers across the country, some of whom already pay for Provenge. Medicare on Wednesday called its online memo a "proposed decision," but it essentially amounts to agreeing to cover the drug for millions of seniors enrolled in its program.

Rowane likes the $73-per-share offer. "It's a fair valuation as of today's market," he said. He said he sees the possibility of either Valeant boosting its offer or anotherBuy nike running shoes online, company stepping in to bid for Cephalon at a higher price. A Cephalon spokeswoman said the company is "acting promptly" in regard to Valeant's proposal. "It would be inadvisable and not in the best interest of our shareholders to be pressured into making a decision of this magnitude under such an artificially aggressive timeline," she said, referring to Valeant's previous demands for a response to the offer. Although Cephalon may have protections--what is known as a poison pill that could block a hostile offer--they may be irrelevant if shareholders push for a deal or if Valeant is successful in its plan to oust the company's board. "We would not expect Valeant toBuy nike running shoes online, encounter a lot of resistance from CEPH shareholders given the uncertainties Cephalon faces," Cowen & Co. analyst Eric Schmidt said in a note to clients Wednesday. Valeant Chief Executive J. Michael Pearson highlighted concerns Wednesday that Cephalon hasn't done enough to offset the looming pressures to its business, despite having years to plan. "Whether they want to admit it or not, they face a huge restructuring. We're very good at restructuring," Pearson said during a conference call. Cephalon shares closed up 28% to $75.44, above the cash offer of $73 a share. Shares of Valeant rose 13% to $50.08, after hitting their highest level since 2003 earlier Wednesday. Cephalon's top-selling product, wakefulness drug Provigil, made up about 40% of the company's total sales last year of $2.8 billion, but it loses patent protection in 2012. A similar follow-up drug called Nuvigil, launched in mid-2009, had sales of $186.2 million last year. J.P. Morgan recently reported that Nuvigil has about 42% of the total prescriptions for the combined franchise, but some analysts expect sales to drop after a generic version of Provigil is available.Buy nike running shoes online, Cephalon has been aggressive in making acquisitions and signing partnerships to diversify its business into areas such as cancer therapies and generic drugs in recent years. Its pain-treatment business and cancer division had combined sales of about $1 billion last year.

The company has told dealers that "approximately 233 part numbers, out of over 300,000 active part numbers, have been placed on controlled allocation." Toyota asked dealers not t  buy Puma Ferrari online,o stock up on those parts, but to order only "what is critically needed to support customer emergency" repairs. The shortage is being caused by the shutdown of suppliers due to Japan's earthquake and tsumani. The move is being made to prevent dealers for ordering excess inventory out of fears that shortages could develop on critical parts that they use a lot, like an engine drive belt.

 

Toyota won't say which exact parts are involved in the recall, but spokesman Brian Lyons confirms to Drive On that parts needed to make repairs on Toyota's many highly publicized recalls are not involved.

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"some production interruptions" at its 13 North American vehicle assembly and engine plants due to problems obtaining parts from Japan.

The announcements were the latest indication that problems may get worse before they get better for Japanese brands in the U.S. due the ongoing crisis in Japan:

-- Drive On reported earlier that starting tomorrow Honda "will begin to adjust production levels" at most of its North American factories, cutting hours at some plants in half.

-- Subaru plans to cut shifts in half on Wednesday, to four hours, at its Lafayette, Ind., plant to conserve parts.

-- Nissan says parts inventories are OK for now, but it will have to reassess North American production on Friday.

"Teams are working 24/7 to make a detailed

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 assessment of the situation. A car is about 30,000 parts and we have more than 60 cars in the (global) portfolio, so you can imagine the size of the puzzle," says Carlos Tavares, head of Nissan operations in the Americas.

Toyota said it can't predict yet how deeply it might have to cut production at its 13 North American engine and vehicle plants and which plants will be most affected.

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