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...slope over 230 m in pursuit of a wheel of cheese? It's a small miracle that none of the scores of locals who have been taking part each May at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire has been killed. But broken collarbones and crushed vertebrae are painfully common, and cave-rescue teams stand by to extricate the wounded. And the prize? The cheese. The very purpose of such antics is to defy explanation. "It's a ritual, innit?" is the best any of these Olimpians can come up with, and Daeschner wisely avoids proposing any fancier theories. Instead he joins...
...know where Saddam Hussein was when it invaded Iraq. It took nine months to find him. Now the government doesn't know where the WMD are or even if they exist at all. It didn't know where Osama bin Laden was when U.S. troops went to the Afghanistan cave complex called Tora Bora in 2001, and it doesn't know where he is today. There is no evidence of a link between Saddam and the 9/11 attacks. Americans have been misled. If U.S. self-protection mandates unilateral, preemptive strikes against any nation that Washington chooses, American leaders had better...
...taking an antibiotic, you should always take the full course, even if you start feeling better before finishing the regimen; otherwise you are just adding to the resistance problem. And please don't insist that your doctor give you an antibiotic when it isn't necessary. Many doctors will cave under pressure, but you shouldn't put them in that position. They really do know what is good...
Under that arrangement, “the military was able to recruit effectively and the administration did not have to cave on its policies,” Friedberg said...
Indeed, while a concern over illusion and reality inside Plato’s cave permeates First Born, Eyedea’s assertive lyricism on E and A cares more about the music and the audience than epistemology. “This is a necessary change,” Eyedea raps at the start of his new head-spinning single “Now,” as if to preface the record that follows...