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Like politicians everywhere, Papua New Guinean M.P.s are programmed to plot. Eighteen months after a national election, a new government loses its immunity from votes of no confidence - and disgruntled M.P.s on both sides of Parliament start conspiring to unseat it. Of 11 governments since Independence in 1975, only six have been elected. Five won power through no-confidence votes or the threat of them; none has lasted a full five-year term. "Abusing the 18-month grace period is like a disease in P.N.G. politics," says Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare. "Those who feel they've missed out always...
...Eighteen innings and two more home runs later, the infielder hit number 22 of his career in Hanover—a three-run shot—to break the all-time mark...
Last December, a few days before the Arizona Cardinals were set to play the Seattle Seahawks, Dave McGinnis, then the Cardinals' head coach, got a call from U.S. Army Specialist Pat Tillman. Eighteen months after trading his Cardinals jersey for government-issue camouflage and six months after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, Tillman was back with his 75th Army Ranger Regiment at its base in Fort Lewis, Wash. Soon he would ship out again, this time to Afghanistan. But now he wanted to come see his old team play...
...taken a while, but the best and largest studies have shown that not to be the case. Eighteen months ago, a giant study of practically every child in Denmark found no causative link between autism and the so-called MMR shot--the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. Another big Danish study last week found no link between various childhood vaccines and Type 1 diabetes...
...little tired, but some more so than other. The Effect of Gamma Rays for example was quite draining, physically involving a lot of screaming and running across stage and having convulsions and mentally requiring me to get inside the mind of a seriously disturbed girl for eighteen performances! Musicals and children’s shows are also physically extremely exhausting, involving lots of “huge,” exaggerated movements, but they’re emotionally pretty easy. No matter what, though, I’m usually energized, and not drained, after a good performance?...