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...extremely tricky to describe, which explains why getting a diagnosis can be difficult. The website RLSHelp.org lists more than 100 words and phrases that sufferers use to express how the syndrome feels, ranging from "tortured limbs" to "bugs crawling in my legs at night" to "the bone itch." The website also contains the term "Jimmy legs," referring to a popular Seinfeld episode in which Kramer dumps a woman for constantly thrashing her legs in bed -a common, comic treatment of the syndrome. "It's such a trivial-sounding disorder," says Dr. Mark Buchfuhrer, a sleep specialist who is working...
...wounds of that pogrom are still fresh. As Abdi talks, a troop of crippled young Somali men arrive. One has a cast on his left forearm, the bone shattered by a bullet; another is on crutches, his right leg amputated after a knee-capping; a third lost his left eye. Abdi's room feels like a field hospital. But it was to escape such horrors - militiamen had killed their mother and another brother on their farm outside Baidoa - that Abdi and his brother left in 2004. "We chose South Africa for a better life," he says. "We came here...
...memory of registering for at Bed Bath & Beyond. But an 8-week-old basset hound--all ears and belly and panda paws--is way cuter than a vacuum cleaner. We set his quivering body down on the city sidewalk, and he promptly sucked down a chicken bone. We named him Hoover...
...rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain and far beyond. Her likeness is etched onto stacks of commemorative coins - the Royal Mint is releasing a set costing between $80 for the smallest one and $480 for the largest - and inked onto reams of stamps...
...cross the finish line, however, he'll have to overcome opposition from those who, like Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, fought hard to bring the measure down. Describing the bill as "a lot of flesh, but no bone," Sessions said he didn't see any point in Reid investing more time in debate unless changes are made. "I don't know that he'll want to bring it back unless he's got something new to spin it with," said Sessions. "I'm not sure he would see it as worth his time to bring back an unpopular bill...