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...Your Drug Was Discontinued Eli Lilly was the last U.S. manufacturer of animal insulin, which is extracted from the pancreatic tissue of cows and pigs and has been used by diabetics for more than a half-century...
Harvard-Yale Race: 1. The oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the country. 2. Multi-mile crew race held annually on the Thames river in New London, Conn., in which the ever-dominant Harvard crew embarrasses its Eli counterparts...
...rationale for continuing to wave the bloody shirt of Islamist terrorism as a partisan bludgeon. Vice President Dick Cheney, the nation's wingnut in chief, actually said Lieberman's defeat would give aid and comfort to our terrorist "adversaries and al-Qaeda types." On the other side, Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org and therefore, perhaps, the nation's blognut in chief, proposed the "death of triangulation"-that is, the end of Clintonian moderation-in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece and announced a return to ... well, the party's stupid excesses...
...time, there were three more soldiers who had been in captivity for two years. An exchange for them was being negotiated, but was held up by one of the demands. Eli Cohen, a famous Israeli spy, was hanged by the Syrians in the 1960s. The Israelis wanted his body returned for a proper burial. Every time an exchange was proposed, the Israelis demanded his body. The Syrians would not agree to this...
...pain or physical torture. In training, you can't induce the fear of the unknown - you always know the exercise will end and you'll go home. The worst thing for us would have been to lose the sensation for life. I thought I would end up like Eli Cohen, hanging in the city square. You lose faith in reality. You can train people to survive the pain but not the unknown...