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...learning to walk on prosthetics. She is progressing well, but worries that her new legs - shod in bright red Adidas - will not be able to handle the pathways in her mountain village, which is a three-hour drive from Kabul. Still, she says, any help at all is a boon. "Before this, I was crawling...
...BOON OR BURDEN
...also pretty obsessive about elephants. He knew, for instance, that the elephant trunk is around 130 times more sensitive than the human nose. He could imagine what it would be like breathing in chili pepper with a probiscus like that. And he started to imagine what a boon it would be if he could persuade African farmers to grow chilies...
...Thanks to MySpace, you can learn a candidate's star sign and "body type" - but is this cyber meet-and-greet really the boon for democracy that enthusiasts claim it to be? Many MySpace entries tend to be of the "Go, big Kevvie!" variety. Kelly thinks even this exchange is worthwhile. "It's more about the connection than about what you communicate," she says...
...donors were new to the campaign. The cash infusion comes on the heels of a series of important union endorsements for Edwards, who trails in overall fundraising behind both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by more than $50 million. Edwards has won support from seven Iowa unions - a huge boon to the campaign because it effectively shuts out Obama from bringing in any outside organized labor support. Obama has no Iowa union endorsements; Hillary leads the field with eight...