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...intense sadness is indescribable. I can tell you what it’s like to be sitting on your kitchen floor, curled up in the fetal position, crying as you stare at the cutting block and imagine taking one of the knives out and stabbing it into your chest. I can tell you what it’s like to be in the mental ward of a hospital, and after three days, feel so confined that your mind struggles to control your body, and you feel like you’re going to explode into violence, that you will...
...long as this toddler Olympics continues, however, think twice before puffing out your Harvard-insignia-covered chest, over-proud of the fact that you go to Harvard and beat ten other brilliant students to get in. There might very well be someone in that admissions tour group walking by who beat out 15—when...
...collective butts by framing the debate with manipulative language. They invented the “Death Tax” to replace the Estate Tax (picture: grim reaper as tax collector), the “personal investment account” to replace privatized Social Security (picture the empowered investor-citizen, chest out, cape flapping in the wind) and the horribly racist stereotype of the “welfare queen” to destroy governmental social programs (picture single mother proudly collecting her check and watching...
...really good," says Lieut. Colonel Warren Dorlac, an Air Force trauma surgeon who has spent the past seven months operating on wounded soldiers at Landstuhl. "These guys are surviving incredible amounts of trauma, and they're doing well." Armored vehicles and protective gear mean that killer head and chest wounds are far less likely than in the past. Portable blood supplies and blood-clotting powders to pour into wounds have reduced the death toll even further. But many of the men and women who pass through Landstuhl owe their lives to the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (ccatts), the flying...
...still above where it was in early 2004. "The company has performed extremely well, but its rate of growth has slowed," says Joe Blankenship, an analyst at Source Capital Group, who notes that Taser is flush with cash. As it fights its many battles, Taser may need that war chest. --With reporting by Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles