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...anarchy that prevails today. Ask an Iraqi to list their desires, and the first answer is always safety and security. Some call for an immediate evacuation of U.S. and British troops; others ask that Iraq be made the fifty-first state; and some demand both in the same breath. Most long only for a place in the shade and a future better than their past, but their pride as an ancient, wise and strong people should not be underestimated...
...newly infected is a co-worker's father or a doctor who once treated my sick daughter, and the fear and worry are reduced again to the real story behind this outbreak: one man, in an intensive-care ward, hooked up to a respirator, gasping for breath, fighting for his life. It is a horrible death to witness, one doctor told me, like watching a man drown to death on dry land...
This road, I've been told, leads to paradise. Everyone says my journey to the pristine village of Yubeng in the northwest corner of China's Yunnan province will take my breath away. I'm breathless alright. But for all the wrong reasons. My minivan is careening along a tiny ledge of compressed rubble, gouged out of a steeply pitched ravine, a few hundred meters above a tributary of the Mekong. I'm convinced I'm seconds away from becoming part of one of the small avalanches the van is leaving in its wake...
...they are putting up a parking lot. Says Diqing County Chief Pu Luhua: "Yubeng is a tranquil place. And we mean to keep it that way. We know this approach will be more profitable in the long run." But for now, the challenges of doing so take my breath away...
...infuriating to watch. Something just seems awry with the universe when a scene like the one at Red Rolfe Field unfolds, when Lentz, blessed with the rarest degree of inborn ability, who at one point in his career was mentioned in the same breath as some of Major League Baseball’s brightest young stars, is made an object of ridicule by a gang of barely sober, snot-nosed schoolboys who don’t have half his brain or his maturity. It’s more than a little awkward to see the story of a figure...