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...henchmen are intended to ensure that Assad doesn't do so in the future. "What you want to do is send a clear signal to Assad that if Saddam wants to come to Damascus, he's not welcome there," says a U.S. official. Washington also hopes to strong-arm the Syrians into giving up some of their worst habits--such as sponsoring organizations like Hizballah, which the U.S. labels a terrorist group, and the violent Palestinian activists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as developing chemical weapons. Washington effectively put Assad on notice that, as Deputy Secretary of Defense...
...shortness of breath." After a couple of trips to the doctor, who failed to pick up on her heart problems, she collapsed in the street while on a vacation in Colorado. "I clutched my chest, had profuse sweating, chest pains from the front to the back, down my arm, up into my jaw." When the symptoms went away, she attributed them to the altitude. Finally, after collapsing one more time, she underwent a more comprehensive and rigorous stress test, which revealed a blockage that required bypass surgery after earlier treatments ended in failure. Now when Kastan talks to women...
...exercise that is particularly effective for the back is the quadruped. Facing the floor on hands and knees, extend your right arm and left leg out from your trunk and hold that position for a few seconds. Repeat with your other arm and leg; make sure you keep your spine straight and don't let your abdomen sag. If that's too hard, you can also do this exercise while lying flat on your stomach. For something more challenging, try extending an opposing arm and leg while balancing on your stomach on a physiotherapy ball...
...Moua joined Vang's secret army at age 15. His left arm ends in a stump?his hand was removed in a 1974 jungle amputation. One of only four people in the village with some writing skills, he is a meticulous keeper of village statistics?there are 56 orphaned children, 40 widows and 11 widowers. By Moua's count, 30% of the villagers have shrapnel wounds. In 1975, when Vang fled Laos, Moua recorded his group at 7,000 people. Today there are only about 800 left...
...Murray, then a professor in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men” subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly began to experience emotional distress [and] to develop his anti-technology views” and “started having fantasies about...