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Fadi Dawish, 28, is behind the counter of his grocery store, counting change in almost total darkness. He gets only a few hours of electricity a day, just like the other crumbling shops and dwellings along Salameh Street in Beirut's Sabra refugee camp, where smelly piles of garbage sit uncollected and the water supply swims with disease. Even when the lights are on, Dawish has to strain as he adds up the day's receipts because of the deep shrapnel gash over his left eye from Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Lebanon 19 years ago. Recently...
...random to ask if they would like a free plane ticket to an exotic destination like Bali. The catch is the plane is leaving in two hours, they have to go alone and they must race an unknown number of other contestants to get to the airport ticket counter first. The audience competes for a second free ticket by downloading street maps and other information from the Web to become the first to figure out which contestant will...
...should make it easier for doctors to just say no. (The advice doesn't apply to individuals over 65 or those with diabetes or chronic heart and lung disease.) Patients shouldn't think they're getting poor treatment if their doctors don't prescribe antibiotics. Stick to over-the-counter products to ease symptoms. And be patient, patient! The bug will eventually go away...
...Soviet era gunships arrived from Ukraine, and just in time from the government's point of view. It's a devastating weapon against guerrillas, as the Afghan mujahedeen found during the 1980s - it was only after the Afghans got Stinger missiles from the U.S. that they could counter those gunships, and the Albanian fighters in Macedonia obviously don't have anything like that...
...Saudis' early refusal to allow American law enforcement officials to interview people suspected of having a connection to the incident. Sources in Lewis's camp say some in the FBI pressed for indictments and advocated other aggressive moves, but prosecutors have considered the evidence far too thin. FBI officials counter that the issue was never indictments but rather a lack of support from Lewis's office. Lawyers familiar with the case dismiss bureau complaints as a power play. "Louis Freeh wanted to be both the investigator and the prosecutor," said...