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...truck rolls to a stop on the seventh day, something more serious is wrong. This time, the bath doesn't work. The drivers are nervous as they try to get the motor turning again. No luck. Getting stuck out here means almost certain death. The drivers try to calm the passengers by telling them, "We're in the same situation as you." Finally, after three hours, the motor kicks over and the truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they cross into Libyan territory. A few hundred kilometers later - and after 10 days in the truck - the driver...
Pisano is a small woman who radiates calm and grace in a crowd of pirouetting, high-kicking men, most of them a foot taller than herself...
McLean-Foreman recounts his accomplishments in a modest and unfailingly even, polite tone. Aaron C. Barth ’04, McLean-Foreman’s roommate during their freshman and sophomore years, says McLean-Foremean is a stereotypical Brit. “Alasdair is very calm and thoughtful about everything he does,” he says, “but he also has an extremely sharp, subtle British wit.” Barth reports that McLean-Foreman frequently tosses around British slang (“bollocks” is a favorite), and says his natural British accent helped...
...which she rides at least an hour every day. She has lost 24 lbs. so far, and her glucose levels have stabilized. "Before she was diagnosed, she was happy to sit here by herself, playing with her Barbies," says Tammy Carroll, Hillary's mother. "I thought she was so calm then, but now that we have her sugar under control, she's more active." Hillary, now 11, is taking charge of her life. To get control of the diabetes epidemic, the rest of us may have to do the same. --Reported by David Bjerklie and Alice Park/New York, Dan Cray/Los...
...sharp criticism of President Bush and took shots at the other Democratic candidates last night during the live broadcast of Matthews’s “Hardball” from the JFK Jr. Forum—but contrary to his reputation as short-fused, the former governor stayed calm...