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...talked to you." He is a mild and graying man, but a transcript of his testimony from a terror-related trial in February provides a glimpse of his fierce work habits. After Sept. 11 proved him right, he didn't blow the whistle on the disturbing breakdown in the chain of intelligence that followed his memo. He didn't quit. He didn't write a book. Instead, he went back to the office and bore down harder than ever...
...Rotarians then solemnly affixed silk tulips to the chain-link fence that has become a thriving impromptu memorial. Well-wishers have left everything from origami cranes to a United Airlines uniform. The offerings are fiercely protected by Shanksville's residents, who eight months after the crash are still finding shreds of airplane in their backyards. "We see this as our calling, to make sure this final resting place is well kept," says Kim Friedline, who has cut back her hours at the county courthouse to stand sentry at the site several days a week. "The families can't be here...
What is it about breast milk that makes babies so smart? Reinisch suspects there is a component of mother's milk that either protects the central nervous system or stimulates its development. The likeliest candidate: a long-chain polyunsaturated acid known as DHA that is found in human milk but not in infant formula or cow's milk. Today's infant formulas, by the way, are fortified with a precursor of DHA called ala and may offer some of the same benefits...
...hands are the devil's playthings. But redeeming social value is less of a worry these days. "Even women no longer shy away from buying such things," says Miss Wang, a lab-coat-wearing saleswoman at downtown Wenzhou's Adam Eve Health Center, part of a nationwide sex-shop chain. On the dusty glass shelves of the store sit many of the products from the Loves factory. The names range from the whimsical ("The Plump Landlady") to the boastful ("The Great Penis") to the perspicacious ("The Strongly Systolic"). Prices range from $1 to $150 plus. Wang, who is frequently asked...
Megan A. Sullivan, who has worked for the store for three years, said the staff’s close-knit community creates a friendly environment that is different from that at chain stores...