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...your-face reminder from the master terrorist that he is still in business--and the U.S. can't find him. The full impact of the new tape reached the public when the FBI issued a stark bulletin containing a new vocabulary of alarm warning of "spectacular" terrorist attacks to come. Over the weekend, London's Sunday Times reported three North Africans had been arrested after British intelligence foiled their alleged plot to release gas, possibly cyanide, in the London Underground. Also over the weekend, a London journalist for the Qatar satellite channel al-Jazeera said he had received...
...walls of a heart vessel--the immune system sends in wave after wave of cells to swarm and destroy the invader. In the blood vessels, layers of these immune cells pile up, creating lesions that become increasingly unstable and may eventually rupture, triggering a heart attack. How sensitive this alarm system is depends on such things as diet, stress and one's genetic predisposition...
...designer tags off the insides of your clothes because their tiny tickle drives you nuts. Maybe you stick a Post-it note over your blinking e-mail icon because the flashing distracts you. Maybe you run an air conditioner in November to drown out the sound of a car alarm that doesn't seem to bother anyone else. If this is you, take heart. You're not necessarily becoming an intolerant crank; rather, you may be suffering from a spanking-new syndrome called sensory defensive (SD) disorder...
There was, however, one area in which they disagreed: how to raise kids. Carla (who, like the other women interviewed for this article, didn't want her real name or that of her friend used) watched with alarm as Nancy allowed her daughter to eat fistfuls of sugary snacks and scramble on playground equipment beyond her abilities. To make matters worse, Carla's daughter was beginning to mimic those behaviors. "I didn't know whether to offer my advice or keep my mouth shut," says Carla. She tried to be host of most of the playdates so that she could...
...with a purple laser light, which in Vapir-brochure-hyperbolic-speak is elegantly termed the “Herbal Illuminative Photon Ejector,” so that the user can see the essence of plant before becoming one with it. The on-panel digital display also features a handy alarm to alert you when digital aromatherapy session should end and your post-digital-aromatherapy-session snack should begin. Future models of the Vapir even promise a USB port so that the device can interface with the Internet or your PDA. Why would you ever want to that...