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...absolute inability to choose what items to order from the grill. He’ll often pick up the little pad of menu selections and the pencil, and then stand blocking the entire counter while he muses over the relative benefits of a cheeseburger or a tofu burger (go with the cheeseburger) or takes more than two seconds to mark which food he wants. An even more rare and destructive variant of the Grill Debater is Grillus Debatus Mistakus, who has the audacity to go back and correct his order or fix a possible spelling error in his name...
...depression. Although the man may fade into obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran
...trouble explaining: at a press conference last spring, he said the CPA had approved "fundamental" internal controls for the Health Ministry before handing it over to the interim government. But, the report notes, his staff members said they were "unaware of the basis" for that assertion. --By Timothy J. Burger...
...women over the age of 65, eating five or more servings each month of tuna or other baked or broiled fish decreases the risk of stroke 28%. But those protective benefits disappeared when the fish was fried. Eating at least one serving of fried fish or a fish burger each week led to a 37% increase in stroke risk, which grew with each additional serving. Frying seems to alter the ratio of good to bad fats, including trans fats, in the fish--which, scientists speculate, may encourage the formation of blood clots...
...inexcusable. Says Neal Sonnett, the American Bar Association's observer at Gitmo: "Some of these people have been detained for three years, and we should do everything possible to be sure that we don't detain innocent people one minute longer than we have to." By Timothy J. Burger...