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...Brunswick, agreed to carry Potter's request to the steamer. Dispatched in a whaleboat, he soon stood on the steamer's deck. Ludlow failed to learn the mystery ship's identity, and his reception by her officers had been a bit frosty. But they seemed to have expressed, albeit in vague language, a willingness to provide passage for Captain Potter...
...saddens me that a lot of innocent people died in Haditha. The members of Kilo Company apparently abused their power while serving there. Perhaps they were confused because they can't distinguish friend from foe. It's as though the My Lai massacre had happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. One thing is sure: history does repeat itself...
...giving birth. Apparently when I checked off "sensitive skin" in the initial questionnaire, it also meant "please gouge out tiny holes from my tender flesh." I would have cried, but I was afraid my tears would bind to the moisturizer-soaked cotton balls over my eyelids, leaving me blind-albeit free of those fine lines around the eyes. If this was what it took to be pretty, I didn't have the guts...
...headaches. Most childhood headaches can be attributed to the same things that cause adults' headaches, such as sinus infections, stress, allergies, migraines and eye strain. But as common as these etiologies are, the causes of headaches are myriad, and a careful practitioner must be able to diagnose the serious, albeit rare, causes as well as the common ones. So it is always with some reluctance that I approach headache patients, not because they are demanding but because their symptom is. Of the many headache patients I have taken care of, three "zebras" stand...
...abrogate its right, under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to enrich uranium. Tehran has signaled a flexibility on time frames, and also a willingness to consider importing its reactor fuel if it is allowed to maintain the small-scale uranium enrichment research facility it is currently operating at Natanz, albeit under closer international supervision. The U.S., Britain and France have rejected that possibility on the grounds that any enrichment activity gives Iran critical know-how for bomb production...