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...delirium tremens - the acute alcohol-withdrawl state) scared us. Full-blown DTs has an unbelievably high mortality rate - 50%, according to some reports. There was one thing I was taught well by the old docs of my early career. DTs are a withdrawal state; you don't get them if you don't take away the alcohol. You kept the ladies and gentlemen of our town smooth, happy and alive if you kept up their intake in the hospital. Roger broke his hip in the late 80s, when cigarettes and whiskey had given way to yoga and granola bars...
...must linger near the center of the field and watch all the action from a distance. Since most penalties occur near the goals, it is understandable that refs make such bad calls. And with television cameras capturing every angle of play, we spectators know instantly that a referee has blown it. We get a better shot of the action than he does. Despite the advances in ball technology that have made the game faster, there has been no increase in the number of referees. I agree with retired ref Gilles Veissière, whom you quoted suggesting that football needs...
...strip of territory that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israeli aircraft also destroyed three key bridges across the Litani River, cutting off much of southeast Lebanon from the capital. One Lebanese soldier and two civilians were killed when Qasimiyeh Bridge, six miles north of Tyre, was blown up. Lebanese troops blocked the roads leading to the destroyed bridges and instructed motorists to return north and get out of the area. "This is not good. We don't need another war," said Marwan Haddad, a Christian resident of Marjayuon, as he listened anxiously to the Israeli artillery fire...
...forgive every single marine who might be guilty of any wrongdoing in Haditha. How many of us could endure the genuine fear of being blown apart day after day without going berserk? The atrocity is not Haditha; it is the war. Edward Fry Laguna Beach, California...
...When men and women are sent into unjustifiable wars, when soldiers see their buddies get blown to pieces for no good reason, when there is a vacuum in moral leadership, then decent people become capable of horrific acts. We thought we learned this painful lesson in Vietnam, but we are sadly seeing history repeated in Iraq. The few bad eggs are not the brave men and women in the combat zones of Iraq but the cowardly men and women occupying the White House. Steven Lockton Irvine, California...