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...three anecdotes: 1) A few years ago, Merritt was getting out of a cab when he was struck on the head by a hailstone the size of a golf ball. He picked up the piece of ice and put it in his freezer, where it remains. 2) As a birthday present, Merritt once decided to give himself isolation. He avoided speaking to another human being for nearly 24 hours, then ventured out to a bookstore and ran smack into his ex-boyfriend. 3) Merritt was browsing in another bookstore when he stumbled across a title by the Scottish techno...
Rashdan and Verges have appealed to the Red Cross in Geneva for access to Saddam. The Red Cross, whose officials visited Saddam in a U.S. detention center in Iraq last Tuesday--a day before the fallen dictator's 67th birthday--says it can't help. "Attorneys need to ask the Americans themselves," says Antonella Notari, a Red Cross spokeswoman in Geneva. Neither Rashdan nor Verges has been able to do so. Both have said they distrust Saddam's captors. Another thing the rivals have in common: both hope to focus their defense on U.S. actions in Iraq rather than...
...coach recalls that Wetzel, even though he was two years removed from South Florida, remembered to call Barr’s wife and wish her a happy birthday earlier this year...
...staying at work rather than staying home. In Sweden, where leave can in principle be divided equally between parents, fathers only account for 17% of parental leave taken. And in the Netherlands, where men can take up to 13 times their weekly hours before their child's eighth birthday, the number of men who made use of the leave fell slightly from 13% in 1998 to 12% in 2001. Fathers say they would love to stay home - for short periods - if the realities of their jobs would let them. A 1999 study by the State Institute for Family Research...
...meant to take only a few minutes to transmit, but in our test, we had trouble sending with the Toshiba VM4050 from Sprint ($330), though the sound was superb. You may not see your friend's 1-year-old smiling by his first cake, but you'll hear Happy Birthday loud and clear...