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...Nome, began in 1973. When settlers rushed to Alaska in search of gold around the turn of the 20th century, the Iditarod Trail - for which the race was christened - served as the primary artery for ferrying mail and supplies. Given the frigid conditions, the route was often impassable except by dog sleds. (See pictures of the Iditarod...
...case has caused a furor. Abortion is illegal in Brazil except in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger, both of which apply in this case. (The girl's immature hips would have made labor dangerous; the Catholic opinion was that she could have had a cesarean section.) When the incident came to light in local newspapers, the Church first asked a judge to halt the process and then condemned those involved, including the 9-year-old's distraught mother. Even Catholic Brazilians were shocked at the harshness of the archbishop's actions. "In this...
...boys went away.” He still couldn’t accept they’d been blown away? His ignorance flew all over me, and I was ready to bicker over why—precisely why—he thought they were still alive. Except I was assaulted with, “The day for peach cobbler has come!” Ezekiel was already helping me from the carriage, and it was too late to run from Mrs. Lewis. “I’ve put pecans in it this time! I tried it out last...
...cartridges, laminate film and boxes of thumbtacks, Ayman did not think an electronics store on a street of ancient booksellers was strange. "The people who read things need to print," he explains, "so I opened a shop to complete the picture." Ayman does not read himself, he tells me, except manuals for copy machines. Fixing them is his hobby, though he bemoans the current models. "Now all the copy machines are very commercial. You used to be able to fix the old ones yourself...
...That sounds reasonable enough, except that historically it has proved to be impossible. "People talk glibly of 'the total disarmament of the frontier tribes' as being the obvious policy," wrote the young Winston Churchill, who gallivanted, a bit too gleefully, with a 19th century British expeditionary force through the areas where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are now ensconced. "But to obtain it would be as painful and as tedious an undertaking as to extract the stings of a swarm of hornets, with naked fingers...