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...does the report take into account the myriad other products and services that parents today consider essential to raising a child. When you count the stroller, car seat, baby formula, crib, pacifiers and diaper cream, the bill for the first year's baby gear alone clocks in at $6,300. That's not including such luxuries-cum-necessities as exersaucers, baby sign-language class, Mommy and Me yoga and bouncy seats for the youngest set - and then soccer, tutoring, piano lessons, iPods and designer jeans once the kids hit school age. Sure, some of this stuff is extraneous. But most...
...sharp contrast of old and new Belfast raised one overriding question: Did Northern Ireland's Catholics get anything they wanted? Northern Ireland, after all, still belongs to the Queen. I asked a former IRA car bomber. "We got absolutely nothing," Marion said. "We were betrayed...
...lingering doubt I had that the conflict was truly over disappeared when I saw the Europa. There wasn't even a car bomb barrier out front. The place was full of families, many of them American, coming home for Easter. Ex-IRA foot soldiers out front offered driving tours of the old IRA battlefields. Who would ever have thought Northern Ireland would be turned into a theme park...
...Marion joined the IRA when she was seventeen, showing up at an IRA "call house" every day after school. She was never sure what the night's mission would be, but often as not it involved delivering a car bomb. She was (and still is) beautiful, and easily passed through the British checkpoints. "You never forget the smell of sodium nitro benzene" - the improvised explosive used by the IRA in the early days. "It smelled like marzipan...
...crackling gunfire of AK-47s could be heard near the eastern edge of the Green Zone Thursday morning, and rockets landed in the neighborhoods of Salhiyya, Karada, and al-Allawi. An Iraqi police source told TIME that a car bomb had also been detonated outside a hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad. In the district of Khadamiya, a joint American and Iraqi force fought a gun battle Thursday afternoon against armed militants. And local media reported that unidentified gunmen had kidnapped government civilian spokesman for security, Tahsin al-Sheikli, from his home in the al-Amin district of Baghdad...