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...revisions to the constitutional role of Japan's military have been broached. A resurgent China makes the Japanese nervous and they also wonder about the reliability of the U.S. military umbrella if something like a North Korean missile - one of which hit 360 miles offshore in 1998 - were to disturb the region's peace...
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Owens wasn't as concerned about our eight-year-old, who usually gets about 10 hours of sleep a night, with a frequent change of venue--to her parents' bed--around dawn. But Owens was worried about us: "These wakings are more likely to disturb you than her." Make that my husband. He sleeps through nothing, while I snooze through all manner of commotion. To help him get the recommended eight hours for adults, Owens said we should set limits. For instance, no coming into our room before Daddy's alarm goes...
...else preserve the election of 2000 in their hearts in the way a Croatian grandmother may cherish the bloody shirt in which her husband was stabbed by a Serb, in order to show it to her grandchildren and swear them to revenge) - I bring up these howls not to disturb the dead horse of that election, but to make a different point...
...stops at the door of a patient in the last stages of a disease that has eluded all efforts at a cure. After an awkward hesitation, the senior member turns to the others and says, "She's probably very tired and needs her rest. It's better not to disturb her. Let's just go ahead and see how yesterday's colectomy is doing." The others nod, and they move on to the next room...