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...However, while Kobayashi's torso was primed for dozens of hot dogs, his mouth wasn't. He injured his jaw while training in Japan last month, and visits to scores of doctors failed to produce a conclusive diagnosis. With time of the essence and Kobayashi barely able to open his jaw, he posted a plea on his blog for doctor referrals. As Kobayashi is a national hero in Japan, where competitive eating has been popular for years, his countrymen responded in droves with offers to help. Soon after his posting, Kobayashi had a wisdom tooth pulled and began treatment...
...young doctor living in unit 9 of the upmarket apartment block in Southport, a coastal town an hour south of Brisbane, Australia, hardly matched the popular image of a terrorist sympathizer. "He didn't have a beard. He was quietly spoken. He didn't talk about anything. If you had said boo to him he would have fallen over," says Steve Bosher, manager of the building...
...trainee is being held in connection with inquiries into the recent attempted terror attacks in England and Scotland, in which two cars packed with explosives were discovered in central London, while an SUV filled with fuel canisters was driven into a terminal building at Glasgow International Airport. A second doctor, an associate of Haneef's, is also being questioned by authorities in Southport...
...Authorities in the Australian state of Queensland, say there had been no clues that either Haneef or the second man had any association with terrorism. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, whose Health Department employed Haneef on a special visa in September 2006, said the doctor had responded in March last year to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal for work in Australia. Haneef was working at a hospital in Liverpool, England, at the time and all appropriate checks had been done to confirm his qualifications. "He was a good employee who was interested in learning his emergency duties...
...Apart from Abdulla, a second detainee is believed to be a practicing doctor. The BBC reported that Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian-trained medic who worked at hospitals in central England, was arrested along with a woman on the M6 motorway in northern England on Saturday. At least five of the people under custody are thought to be foreign citizens. "We are all very relieved that these terrorists were not Scots or even had any real connection with Scotland," Glasgow Muslim MP Mohammed Sarwar told TIME. "We have 60,000 Muslims living in Scotland and most of them live...