Mr. Gore's visit and the resulting political donations he reaped from it have proved a deep embarrassment for him and a political opportunity for his opponents.
Three aggressive treatment strategies doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes and some who are the verge of developing it have proved to be ineffective or even harmful, new studies show.
Promises of help to modernise the Polish armed forces ("we provide the boys, you provide the boots" as a Polish official once put it) have proved frustratingly empty.The region's biggest fear is the health and credibility of NATO.
And fears that the trial would be inaccessible to those most concerned with it have proved unfounded: members of the Diallo family are here every day, with the cost borne by the Bronx district attorney's office.
Both the timing of the election, and the tactics adopted in the weeks leading up to it, have proved misjudged.Many Poles agreed with Law and Justice's diagnosis of the danger of pervasive corruption, but found the medicine worse than the disease.
Aging is the main cause of severe illness and death in humans, but the proximate biological mechanisms that cause it have proved difficult to identify.
