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Figuring she had little to lose, Martha agreed to the treatment and soon found herself sitting in a chair under a squat, gray crescent that administered a series of magnetic pulses to the top of her head. The treatment lasted for one hour, five times a week, for six weeks. "I started to see signs of change by about the third week," she says. "By September, I was on top again. I could take pleasure in things like food and sunshine." Returning to the institute every once in a while for repeat sessions of what researchers call repetitive transcranial magnetic...
...league launched the program in New Orleans because of Louisiana's love affair with the game. It held the training sessions in a tough neighborhood near the Crescent City Connection, a Mississippi River bridge, because of the area's high number of single-parent households. Moms in this part of town don't hesitate to do what traditionalists might see as a dad's job. The new coaches quickly won their players' respect. "They're tough and not afraid to holler at you," said Ryan Aaron, 15. "They get down and dirty just like...
...Fallujah because of Zarqawi and his band would be like shooting a horse in order to kill the fly on its back. Moreover, in the course of the battle, Arab TV channels showed Americans, rather than Iraqis in charge on the ground, for example when an Iraqi Red Crescent relief convoy was turned away - to the alarm even of some Iraqi national guard commanders. Nor will the government's case be helped by the spectacle of U.S. troops arresting leading Sunni clerics and politicians sympathetic to the insurgency in Baghdad, or the widely televised image of a Marine apparently shooting...
ROME Fendi's Vanity, shown here in pink canvas and leather with a crescent-shaped mirror ($1,260), is a hit with fashion mavens like Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker...
Nowhere are the stakes in Islam's future higher than in the crescent of turmoil that runs from the Persian Gulf states to Pakistan and across North Africa. In several nations, moderates are locked in showdowns for political supremacy with fundamentalists aspiring to create an Islamic empire to challenge the West. Will control of Iraq devolve to the moderate Shi'ites and Sunnis or to the fundamentalist insurgents of both sects who have made parts of the country terrorist sanctuaries? Will pro-democracy reformers in Iran wrest power from the country's aging theocrats or be squelched...