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...been plenty of occasions recently when I thought of quitting forever. I have been tempted to take the one dream that mattered the most to me and millions of other Palestinians—our long quest for justice—and throw it into that little space in my brain reserved for those fantasies that reality and logic discourage. But then the latest chaos in Gaza came up on the news, only to remind me of the reason why I chose this path of speaking up for Palestinians. The people entangled and entrapped in the complex fabric of the Israeli...
...ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor with Queensland Parks and Wildlife, "has the best spatial brain of anyone I've ever met. More than 250 sites and he can lead you to every one of them." Digging will be confined this year to Riversleigh's fringes, for money's tight and the team lacks a helicopter, essential for reaching the more inaccessible sites and for removing tons of promising...
...disease. But for complicated reasons, that is not the case. The illness tends to be less severe in adults who are continually exposed to the parasites. But when young children become infected, they are much more likely to suffer severe anemia and convulsions that may lead to permanent brain damage and death...
DIED. WALTER WAGER, 79, prolific spy novelist, whose books often featured villains bent on apocalyptic destruction and were turned into such movies as Die Hard 2 and Telefon; of brain cancer; in New York City...
...decent job covering for my lack of definitive goals when talking to advisors and relatives. But what does it really mean? With my fancy Harvard biochemistry education, I often feel a nagging discomfort at the prospect of “dumbing things down.” Neurons become brain cells, atherosclerosis turns into heart disease and at the end of it all, I wonder just how much has been lost in translation...