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...addresses where they could be found. "If we had sincere and honest cooperation from Pakistan," charges the security official in Kabul, "there'd be no Taliban threat in Afghanistan." After the battle near Spin Boldak, Mamabaidullah made the point less delicately by piling more than 20 bodies onto a dump truck, driving to the border and depositing them on Pakistani soil...
HEDGE Keep the house, but dump any other real estate assets. Stocks of home builders, mortgage lenders, movers, furniture companies and real estate investment trusts will sink if the housing market goes bust. In his book The Coming Crash in the Housing Market, author John Talbott suggests selling these stocks short or buying "put" options on them. Both strategies produce gains as stocks fall. These sophisticated moves should not be made without consulting an adviser...
...diet had regained much more weight than those on low-fat diets. And as Dr. Dean Ornish--on the opposite side of many a debate with Atkins--points out, you would expect HDL levels to go up with a low-carb diet, since HDL acts as a kind of dump truck for scavenging fatty compounds. It will also take years to determine whether low-carb diets--which stint on carbohydrate-laden fruits and vegetables--increase the risk of kidney or bone damage, cancer and other conditions...
FARCE OF HABIT. The Adams House Drama Society presents “Farce of Habit: The Boor Hug” and “The Castrata.” In the former, Casimir’s attempts to dump his mistress are blocked at every turn by his well-meaning but dimwitted German servant who manages to keep the “lovebirds” together, thus innocently making a mess of his employer’s love life. “The Castrata” plunges the conceited composer Pizzicato into the Roman world of intriguing cardinals Di Gorgonzola...
...Meanwhile, hobbled by a lack of candid information about the disease, many doctors are unclear about the best treatment methods available to them. At the Inner Mongolia Thoracic Hospital, located in a squalid part of Hohhot in front of a garbage dump, a doctor eagerly opens an express-mail package sent by a colleague in Beijing. Inside it are pages of SARS research from the University of West Virginia, which points to antioxidants as a possible treatment for the mysterious pathogen. "Our preventive measures aren't sufficient," he says. "Beijing sent us instructions about how to prepare for this disease...