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...year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders in the future...
...painful, however, even for a guy who jokes. "At first, I couldn't move in my wheelchair, it hurt so much," he says. He was heavily drugged for a while but decided to quit methadone cold turkey without telling his doctors--not knowing that it could have been fatal. He weaned himself off Demerol too after it gave him twitches. Frustrated by his slow progress at Brooke, he started to run in secret with his new prosthesis. When his therapists insisted he work out in a pool instead, he got revenge. He showed up in shorts and ripped them...
...Russia's Irina Slutskaya, seven-time European and twice World champion. The Scandinavians will struggle to protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash in 2001 by adding to his two Olympic gold medals. German speed skater Anni Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British curling team are vying for a medal or two. As for that...
...illusions about the complexity of the task facing Nato in Afghanistan. But the aim of its mission, he adds, is quite simple: finish what was started. "If we think we can leave Afghanistan on its own now after all that we have invested, we are making a fatal mistake," Nato's Secretary-General told Time last week. "Afghanistan was an exporter of terrorism, and if we do not want it to become one again, we had better take what we do there very seriously." Who could argue with the Dutchman, installed in January 2004 as head of the 26-country...
...condition that the experts call HPPD (hallucinogen persisting perception disorder) and that users call flashbacks is a very real problem. But Halpern says it is relatively rare, striking mostly people who use LSD specifically. But there are other risks too. Some trips have ended catastrophically, with suicides or fatal accidents. In other cases, the disaster was not physical but emotional. "There were a lot of people who decompensated into major mental illness," says Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's school of medicine. "But you could make the case that these were people who were vulnerable...