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...autocratic rule than with some of the key political issues that divide Arafat from his challenger. Abu Mazen has made clear that he intends to put Palestinian security services to work disarming the various unofficial militias, such as the Fatah-based Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, and also to clamp down on the militant Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Arafat opposes the idea of confronting the militants, for fear that this could lead to a Palestinian civil war. But Abu Mazen has long maintained that the armed intifada is a dead end for the Palestinians, and that progress towards...
...anyone who has lived with a peanut allergy knows, it can be very dangerous. Unlike hay fever, an even more common allergy, an allergic reaction to peanuts can quickly kill you. In a process called anaphylaxis, the body overreacts to the point that its airways clamp down, which can lead in some cases to suffocation. Fortunately, anaphylaxis can be reversed--if it is recognized in time. (The EpiPen, a portable adrenaline shot that patients suffering an attack can give themselves before they get to the emergency room, has proved to be a lifesaver...
...When you don’t have to play defense for very long, it’s easier,” Crocco said. “It helps you focus and clamp down...
...news flow, and he knows it. He has moments, he says, when he would like to suit up, "get off the bench" and go back in the game. But when he is invited by President No. 43 to sit in on sensitive meetings, President No. 41 puts a special clamp on mind and mouth. Not his world, not his war. Though there are so many echoes from the past...
...what to do when full-moon parties draw more visitors than your national treasures? Thailand has made various attempts to play down, and then clamp down on, the sex and drugs that have titillated and lured the wrong kind of visitors?but to no avail. The newest approach is a mingling of high and low culture in Chiang Rai province's royally sponsored Mae Fah Luang Foundation's Hall of Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that...