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Michalow joked in an e-mail that the correct acronym for FATAWE is instead fAtAwe (“The A’s are mountains,” he wrote...
Sometimes it's both the heat and the humidity. According to a study in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, weather can affect the success of LASIK surgery, used to correct poor eyesight in a million American patients a year. Dr. Keith Walter at Wake Forest University reports that the hotter and more humid it is when doctors perform the operation, the more likely patients are to come back for follow-up procedures. High humidity can apparently cause the cornea to swell, affecting the surgeon's accuracy. --By Sora Song
...slightly rumpled, bow-tied McCall Smith's operative mode. His books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...
Your article portrayed Hamas members as regular family men who blow up innocent Jewish women and children between trips to the dentist and the beach. Any organization that practices terrorism to achieve its goalsno matter how honorable or correct its cause should have no voice, no credibility and no place in civilized society. Your reporting only reinforced the belief that Jewish blood is cheap, that anti-Semitism is valid and that Israel should quietly disappear into the sea. PAUL STEVENS Palm Beach...
Manckiewicz added that this lack of concern with issues was especially reflected in television reporting. He said that Vice President Agnew was correct in 1970 when he accused network presidents of imposing their bias on network news, but he added that this was not a liberal bias...