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...have to take some of it out and put it down somewhere, or I will burst." The effort seems to have taken over Nouman's life to the exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere. But the squalor doesn't seem to bother Nouman. She has lived...
Shared bathrooms. Damp floors. Dirty bedding. The complaints from the residents of the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village and other decrepit resort settlements in Hong Kong are the sorts of gripes you would expect from unhappy campers. This time, though, the more than 240 occupants of these remote settlements are the evacuated residents of Block E of Amoy Gardens, a crowded Hong Kong housing estate that has become the most virulent breeding ground yet for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak. In barely a week more than 250 residents of Amoy Gardens contracted the potentially deadly virus?nearly half...
...revive him. "When we opened him up," said one, "there was a hole as big as a nutmeg at the front of his heart. I think he was dead before he fell." That night the warm temperatures Serbs had been enjoying for days suddenly gave way to a damp chill, and it started to snow. As police sirens wailed through the night, thousands gathered outside the main government buildings to light candles and sign a book of condolences. "If these criminals win, I don't want to raise my son in this country," said Milana Stepanovic, 34, a hairdresser...
...easy to become infected with a cold virus, about 25% of those who get infected suffer few if any symptoms. For whatever reason, their bodies do not go overboard fending off a viral attack. That suggests to him that you ought to be able to stop the virus and damp down the immune system without causing any major side effects and that any cure has to consist of a combination of drugs...
Does aging damp down our emotions and sexuality? Don't believe it, says photographer Laura Kleinhenz, who has roamed Florida's retirement havens in search of senior romance. Older people, she says, "have a level of needs and passion that most people are completely unaware of." The moments she has captured, from a dating auction to a bedroom embrace, are punctuated by grace, fun and touches of fire. With Valentine's Day approaching, they remind us that love is not only possible at any age, but necessary. --By Heather Won Tesoriero