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...truth is, I have never called the alma mater of 9/11 victims to make sure they are who they say they are. There is to this day no complete public database listing the survivors, partly due to privacy concerns. For the same reason, it is not easy to confirm that a person has received medical attention at a hospital. Still, I could have been less credulous. I wanted, like most reporters interviewing victims of trauma, to get what I needed, without making things worse...
...Scented Bouquet Air Freshener, Walgreens Air Freshener Spray and Walgreens Solid Air Freshener - were among the top four highest in phthalate content (including Ozium Glycolized Air Sanitizer), and Walgreens pulled them from store shelves last Wednesday. The company will submit its house-branded products to an independent lab to confirm the NRDC's findings; one of Walgreens' manufacturers has already decided to make its product phthlate-free, according to Walgreens spokeswoman Carol Hively. The two air fresheners that the NRDC found virtually free of phthalates were Febreze Air Effects Air Refresher and Renuzit Subtle Effects...
...says Michael Duke, a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Vancouver, "nationalism and economics, and the Olympics encapsulate both of them." China's leadership has built up the Olympics as a celebration of the party's administrative competence. Now it wishes to use the Games to confirm China's new international stature and expunge the last vestiges of the isolation into which the country was plunged after the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen protests. "A successful Games would mean that China is accepted by the international community and has become a major world power," says...
...hearing Tuesday - the first had been before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - and the third of the week for both Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Baghdad. The Senate is the preeminent chamber on foreign affairs and national security (remember, its members have to ratify international treaties and confirm secretaries of state and defense), and so, in contrast to the House a day earlier, much of the nearly 10 hours of Senators' questioning was tough and to the point: What is the mission of the U.S. military in Iraq, the Senators wanted to know. And given the inability...
...great fan of chess," Pichuzkin told the police as he handed over his diary to the police. Indeed, his neighbors and friends confirm he was good at resolving problems on a chessboard, a talent to boast about of in chess-mad Russia. But he turned into bloodsport what a Nabokov character saw as an existential revelation. In The Defense the novelist wrote of one chess-obsessed character's epiphany: "...he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess. He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen...