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...week, a flotilla of half a dozen or so tankers heaves into the steamy southern Iraqi port of Khur al-Zubar, and the normally sleepy docks jump to life. Teams of workers scramble over ships arriving mainly from Dubai, Bahrain and other points around the Persian Gulf to connect hoses for the flow of diesel, kerosene and gasoline. Old-fashioned gas-station tickers beside the ships clatter as thousands of liquid tons begin moving...
...toward the end of the day, Franken finds a way to connect. He's at the Rum River Family House Residence, a place for recovering-addict moms. And he doesn't even consider making a joke about the fact that it's the world's worst-named rehab center. Sitting around the living room, drinking coffee and eating lemon bars that the recovering meth moms have made, Franken reveals that he was "co-dependent" with someone close to him. As they tell their addiction stories, he's perfectly empathetic, nodding and using the language of recovery like someone mistakenly doing...
...Hayes' imposing frame, and a stare that managed to intimidate and seduce, made the songwriter a natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold...
...Komaroff and Clever both said that the interactive features of Medpedia would provide a unique medium for patients to connect online, share their experiences, and offer advice...
...Smith dedicates Portrait "to the memory of the Tiwi who have tragically taken their own lives in recent times" - at least 40 since 1998. "Maybe when Tiwi look at this book," she says, "they will connect with the past again a little bit" and recapture some of their old spirit. Pictures of the dead, once banned, may now help Tiwi and their culture embrace life...