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...says, "One woman prisoner told me how she was supposed to blow herself up in a crowd of Israelis but saw a woman pushing a baby in a carriage. That baby reminded her of her nephew, and she couldn't go through with it." Only by building on such brief moments of humanity can Israel and the Palestinians ever overcome the enmities that haunt them...
...reasonable-looking guy, neatly dressed in his mid-40s. He showed up for his office appointment with a brief full of papers, a bag full of X-rays and a face full of exasperation. This was obviously a second or third opinion. I could anticipate his response to my first question...
...emphasis on achievement. “I never felt that I was at any particular disadvantage,” Chao said. President Bush appointed Chao labor secretary in 2001, making her the first Asian-American woman to serve in a President’s cabinet. In a brief question-and-answer session, Chao said repeatedly that students should be confident and not dwell on discrimination. “So many young people seem to think that the world is stacked against them,” Cho said. “I think that’s so negative...
...certain way. Treatments based on the DNA you carry, known as “personalized medicine,” offer a range of benefits over current treatments: more precise doses of potentially toxic drugs, better research into new drugs, and lower health care costs, according to a Mayo Clinic brief. And research into personalized treatments would accelerate if every individual possessed a readout of their...
...remains of Rhonda Archbold ascended along with the ashes of 201 others, including former astronaut L. Gordon Cooper and actor James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" in the original Star Trek television series. The space-bound ashes were packed into lipstick-sized cylinders, each inscribed with a brief tribute by their loved ones...