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Early Saturday morning, Dartboard found herself in a post-party flush. She wanted clean teeth—and clean other parts—before thrusting off into neverland. But, as Dartboard approached the bathroom, her dreams were cut unfulfillingly short by a locked bathroom door and moaning sounds...
...head to the urinals, where I catch a glimpse of a naked man scrubbing himself down in the showers. One of the fifteen stalls is occupied, so I go into an adjacent stall. The guy next to me shuffles uncomfortably. Waiting for a good one-alligator two-alligator, I flush the toilet and slip back to the weight room...
...China, flush from having won the rights to host both the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, is presenting a rosy, reformist face to the rest of the world. But the nation's handling of the deadly SARS epidemic, which is believed to have originated in southern Guangdong province last November, shows that behind closed doors, Beijing can be as secretive as ever. Extensive reports from local doctors suggest that the country's health-care system remains hostage to a government that values power and public order above human lives. "You foreigners value each person's life...
...prose is flashy, funny and unexpectedly erudite, but McManus hardly even needs it--with material this rich, he's holding the writer's equivalent of a royal flush. Between deals he weaves in an anecdotal history that makes the case for poker as America's real national game--baseball's seedier older brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into...
...military into a chicken with its head cut off," a senior Navy official says. Saddam "might be able to strike back, but it will be uncoordinated and ultimately fruitless." Defense sources say that U.S. forces will rush to Baghdad as quickly as possible to try to corner Saddam and flush him out into the open; if a coup or assassination fails to dislodge him, U.S. air and ground forces plan to launch more strikes against critical targets inside the capital in an effort to kill him. A senior U.S official told TIME that covert U.S. intelligence personnel have infiltrated Baghdad...