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...loss that is deep and personal, as if an old friend had disappeared. "We grew up with those paintings," says Marina, who owns a card shop across from St. John. "Yesterday," adds her mother Maria, "I was looking at those nude walls and I felt as if someone had broken into my own home...
...small painting is one of Greece's most sacred icons. So when, one morning in August 2006, the monastery's Mother Superior followed a breeze to the back of the church and discovered that the painting was missing - its pine-and-resin cradle empty, climbing ropes dangling outside a broken window - she fell to her knees and prayed...
...unlikely to cause side effects, according to researchers - the immune system is prompted to create antibodies to both the larger protein and the piggybacked drug. The next time the user takes cocaine by itself, the body mounts an automatic defense: Antibodies attach onto the cocaine molecules, which are then broken down by enzymes in the bloodstream. "It's just like a big sponge for cocaine in the bloodstream," Thomas Kosten says...
...cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Sri Lankans to find an end to the conflict "through a political solution." Alas, in a society where politics turns on religion and identity, such a solution has proved impossible - as two and a half decades of broken plans attest...
...finished his first term as mayor, crime had dropped by somewhere between 12 and 16 percent—for three consecutive years. From the start, Rudy challenged the idea that crime is tied to economic distress. Under him, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented two innovative strategies, “broken window” policing and CompStat. “Broken window” policing emphasized arresting those who committed victimless crimes, operating under the assumption that those individuals were most likely to commit violent crimes. CompStat consolidated all data about recent crimes and arrests so that the NYPD could search...