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...their phones began lighting up - Dr. Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco, said he had fielded a dozen calls by midafternoon - medical experts nationwide postulated myriad reasons for Jobs' withered appearance: a thyroid problem, a deficiency of human growth hormone or perhaps the lasting effects of Whipple surgery (which involves removing portions of the stomach, pancreas, bile duct and small intestine, and can inhibit digestion), which is a common treatment for pancreatic cancer. The last theory seems to be the leading one at this point (Jobs had surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor...
...least parts of them. In a cooler left by a station near Ascension, the police discovered the heads of four men between the ages of 25 and 35. Officers reported some difficulty in identifying the severed heads, as they could belong to any of nearly a dozen local victims who were kidnapped by gunmen the previous week...
Obama lined up his putt then tapped the ball about a dozen feet before it stopped within a foot of the cup. The crowd applauded and Obama turned to them, put his hand above the bill of his baseball cap, and bowed...
...patchy clouds, Israeli warplanes continued to pound Gaza, destroying buildings allegedly linked to Hamas. In one incident, witnessed by this reporter from a hilltop overlooking the northeast corner of the Israel-Gaza border, an Israeli F-16 dropped a half-ton bomb on what appeared to be half a dozen rocket launchers. Even as the heavy woomph of the bomb hitting the ground reached us, about three miles away, one of the rockets blasted skywards, likely triggered by the exploding bomb...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Molski's attorney, Thomas Frankovich, says his client and the dozen or so serial ADA plaintiffs his firm has represented are activists and crusaders. Frankovich dubbed Molski (who does not have a criminal record) "the sheriff" because "he started going into town to clean it up." Frankovich says he has filed 223 ADA lawsuits on behalf of Molski. (Molski used other attorneys to file his other suits.) Frankovich says Molski began suing only after his letters to offending businesses were ignored. (Molski was out of the country and couldn't be reached for comment.) Says Frankovich: "Letters...