The headache had several migraine-like features (summarized in Table 1); 23 patients (77%) fulfilled criteria for a migraine-like attack on either one or both provocation days, 18 patients (60%) on the sumatriptan day and 19 (63%) on the placebo day.
Two years later, several of those sprayed in that incident are still pressing their lawsuits against the city and Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who the Manhattan district attorney announced in April would not be prosecuted for pepper-spraying protesters, apparently without provocation, that day.
Away from his particular case, though, I suspect the public, who know an impossible job when they see one, are not minded to blame police provocation for Thursday's chaos.
Underlining nervousness among some activists that provocation on National Day could spark violence, Hong Kong University students made an online appeal not to disturb the flag-raising ceremony that began at 8 a.m.
This latest provocation comes days before the hermit kingdom celebrates the birthday of its founding president Kim Il-sunextext Monday.
He added: "We have the most serious grounds to believe this was a provocation," Lavrov said Tuesday.
The sports minister, Valérie Fourneyron, described Anelka's gesture as a "shocking and sickening provocation", and on Sunday her rightwing predecessor, Chantal Jouanno, demanded sanctions against the 34-year-old French striker.
On Tuesday there is also a day of provocation and discussion around the platform at Forest Fringe.
While Mr. Karzai did not personally call for calm in his statement, he and his government turned to influential people in communities across the country to tamp down emotions and urged clerics to avoid provocation at the weekly Friday Prayer.
The response to this provocation gathered swiftly on Wednesday morning as users of Twitter created a viral hashtag, #Missing2Min, that speculated and cracked wise about what occurred during the moments missing from the recording posted by Mother Jones.
