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...Rest Emotional stress is exhausting. If you can nap, do it. If you are agitated, get up and walk around the block. If nothing else, it'll remind you that the world is carrying on in spite of your news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Handle a Medical Crisis | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

...While the defections were numerous, the Republican leadership is confident that it will maintain enough votes to block all the controversial amendments, according to several GOP staffers. And, at least one skeptic left lunch pledging to wait until September: Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bush Save the Surge? | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...It’s a huge shock to his friends and family,” Dubon said. “The accident took place only a block away from his house...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recent Grad Dies in Car Crash | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

...Like feijoada, the concoction of meats enveloped in beans with which Brazilians so identify, Brazilian culture consumes many foreign and extraneous elements and makes them its own. Sometimes the mix is inconsistent, and there are some unlikely amalgamations. Here, the first and third worlds are often on the same block: in some parts of the skyline, chic apartment buildings seem to ascend out of seas of squat favelas, the urban slums that dot the urban landscape. Though oft-publicized violent crime is prevalent in the periphery, it is far less common in the center. São Paulo?...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Favelas, Feijoada, and a Festa Junina | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...young doctor living in unit 9 of the upmarket apartment block in Southport, a coastal town an hour south of Brisbane, Australia, hardly matched the popular image of a terrorist sympathizer. "He didn't have a beard. He was quietly spoken. He didn't talk about anything. If you had said boo to him he would have fallen over," says Steve Bosher, manager of the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Terror Connection in Australia? | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

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