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...deployment. Many of South Korea's newspapers ran articles saying they were complying, and three national television networks pulled the plug on coverage. The sole Korean journalist in Arbil, a television producer, was forced to move onto the military base by Korean authorities. She can't leave the compound without an escort of Kurdish militiamen, and hasn't received permission to file a single television story since her arrival in June...
...tile walls of the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf are riddled with bullets, the marble floors streaked with blood. Inside the gates of the besieged compound last week, members of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army slept and patched up their wounds and died. But their determination never faltered, even under the withering firepower of the vastly superior army outside. Haidar, 23, had come to join the fight from his family's house just on the other side of the U.S. cordon encircling the shrine. "I was a history student, but now I have this," he said, waving...
Things did not work out so well a couple of weeks earlier when Bobo, a 600-lb. declawed tiger, escaped from a compound in Florida, where it had been kept by Steve Sipek, 62, who played Tarzan in movies in the 1960s and '70s. Wildlife officials shot and killed the animal. More tragically, last December a 10-year-old boy in Millers Creek, N.C., was killed by a tiger owned by a neighbor. The boy's uncle shot and killed the tiger...
Boosting IGF-1 levels is only half the story. Sweeney is also trying to tip the balance by shutting down myostatin, a compound that inhibits IGF-1 activity in the muscle. The pharmaceutical maker Wyeth Ayerst is testing a myostatin blocker in early trials of healthy humans, and hopes that it may become a new treatment option for those with muscular dystrophy or for the elderly who have become frail from the normal muscle wasting that occurs with aging...
...spell mayonnaise in German? Traditionalists will tell you Mayonnaise, but on Aug. 1, 2005, the authorized spelling is set to become Majonäse. On the same day, Frischgebacken (freshly baked) will turn into frisch gebacken, as countless delightful German compound words are broken up by official decree. Other new rules will govern where a comma belongs in a sentence, and use of the good old-fashioned ?, which will only follow long vowels and diphthongs, while ss will follow short vowels; so it's ich wei? (I know) but ich wusste (I knew). Alles klar? Not really. When Time...