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The Los Angeles Times and USA Today lead with a court-ordered scientific panel's finding of no credible evidence that silicone breast implants cause disease, a story that also makes the New York Times front, but runs inside at the Washington Post . The WP goes with the House Judiciary Committee's ever-increasing hardening of partisan lines concerning impeachment.
But the hardening effect of plain nouns can be detected with regard to other peoples.
Corriere della Sera of Milan reported a hardening of the Italian government's line toward illegal immigrants from Kosovo, now that the war is over.
Any serious policy examination of a suicide hijacking scenario, critiquing each of the layers of the security system, could have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities-expanding no-fly lists, searching passengers identified by the CAPPS screening system, deploying Federal Air Marshals domestically, hardening cockpit doors, alerting air crew to a different kind of hijacking than what they had been trained to expect, or adjusting the training of controllers and managers in the FAA and NORAD.
Other disease-related terms include 'Precancerous conditions' (11,8), 'Pulmonary fibrosis' (5,5; a condition involving chronic inflammation and progressive fibrosis of the pulmonary alveolar walls), and 'Systemic scleroderma' (4,6; characterized by hardening of affected tissues).