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...half hours they strafed the building - targeting kids who tried to make a break for safety, Kerimov says, and killing five outstanding students. An investigation was opened, which then lapsed. Now he and his colleagues no longer feel they can urge students to come to class. Without pausing for breath, Kerimov describes other cases of military abuse, including the way he, an invalid, was forced to stand spread-eagled against a wall for four hours during one raid. Then he suddenly stops. "This is no anti-terrorist operation," he says, using the official name for the Russian operation in Chechnya...
...want to throw one out the window, but that's not the same as a full-fledged phobia. Self-described claustrophobics often misdiagnose as well. The middle seat on a transatlantic flight may be something you approach with dismay, but unless you also experience a racing heart and ragged breath, you are probably not phobic. Drawing the distinction between distaste and the singular terror of a phobia is not always easy--and it's made all the harder by the fact that fear in some circumstances is perfectly appropriate. If flying into a storm or easing into weaving traffic...
...over. The sky is clear again. I get my breath back. My back is just sinking into the seat when--Gotcha! We're in another storm. Just as bad. Panic level back up to 9. Still no pilot. Damn him! Does this plane have a lightning rod? My head is bursting...
...patients with congestive heart failure may also be helped by a hunk of hardware. In two-thirds of 134 subjects studied, an implantable device called InSync restored the heart's malfunctioning electrical circuitry. As a result, patients could walk longer distances and climb more stairs without experiencing shortness of breath or fatigue. InSync is not yet approved by the FDA, but the nod is expected in late summer...
...fact remains there is no way to curb greenhouse gas output without changing current patterns of corporate and even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third...