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...less protected U.S. bases and Israeli cities with longer-range missiles, but that may not work any better. Military experts say Iraq's warheads are not advanced enough to disseminate their payload before impact, which destroys much of their lethal contents. Allied planners are tracking Iraq's efforts to convert training jets into "drones of death" carrying tanks of liquid anthrax that could be sprayed over Israel. Military experts are confident the U.S. and its allies could shoot down such slow-moving planes before they pose a danger to civilians. "One of the reasons invasion is a plausible option...
...ethnically black South, destroying villages, killing thousands of men, and kidnapping their women and children. Victims are forced to march north for days with little food. Any resistance is met with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam and set to work. Boys are made to tend animals while women and girls are used as domestic workers and concubines. Slaves who fail to perform their tasks to their masters’ satisfaction are often beaten or mutilated, many having their fingers chopped...
Broadbent’s success was short-lived, however, as Donegan reeled off four straight points of his own to earn a game point. When he failed to convert, Broadbent closed the door with four points...
...with coronary-artery disease and underwent bypass surgery in 1999. But after the operation, he spiraled into a severe depression, which would recede and then return with renewed force. Finally, Valvo's physician put him on an antidepressant--which not only relieved the depression but also made him a convert to a new way of thinking about illness and health. "Did my heart operation cause the depression I'm experiencing?" he wrote recently in an article for a newsletter for a chapter of Mended Hearts, a support group for heart patients and their families. "Does depression cause heart disease...
...adrenal glands also release extra cortisol and other glucocorticoids, which help the body convert sugars into energy...