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...issue." At times, Downer has hidden behind his officials; Rudd, who may one day be their boss, has flung his missiles over their pointy heads - at Downer, John Howard and Trade Minister Mark Vaile. To be fair, many diplomatic posts are hard, especially in a place like Iraq - dangerous, fluid and with unreliable intelligence. A former Australian official who worked on Iraq says the atmosphere is like that of an emergency room: "You just go from one crisis to the next." Yet most of the bureaucratic handiwork on Iraqi Oil-for-Food was done from the comfort zones of Canberra...
...anesthesiologist, the nurses, the family - and once again to myself - we had Charlie asleep on the table, his leg a nice iodine brown from the skin prep, antibiotics floating around in his blood along with the Three-Mile-Island cocktail from the oncologists. Boy was his knee full of fluid. You start an arthroscopy by putting a metal tube about the size of a Cross pen into the joint. You then expect to drain out an ounce or so of tannish, slippery fluid when you take the plug out of the tube...
...took out the plug, and fluid just gushed. I don't yell in the operating room and I don't like surgeons who do, but I sure yelled then."Give me a basin, now". The fluid coming out of the tube going into Charlie's knee was fluorescent green, a neon, lime-firefly color that I had never seen associated with anything having to do with the human body. We had to get that stuff...
...After clearing out the mysterious fluid, the rest of the operation was routine, as was his follow up. The knee got better. I asked every oncologist I knew if they ever heard of this as a side-effect of chemotherapy. Some of the chemo they were giving Charlie was cherry-red - the thought was that somehow the tissue lining the knee (synovium, that normally makes the tan joint fluid) had been taking the red chemo molecules and changing them into something fluorescent green. This was just a guess though - the red stuff doesn't go green in any known situations...
...placed on teaching students dance terminology and applying that knowledge to journal entries and creative projects. One example he cited was a Thanksgiving-season project in which students choreographed a turkey dance using terms such as “oppositional motion” and “fluid motion.” “Kids are able to address dance at a more cerebral level,” said Johnston, which he said leads to a “more complex understanding for dance as an art form.” Marla Perez-Selles, principal of the Amigos School...