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...years after he walked free from Sydney's Villawood detention center, Mohsen Sultany should be enjoying his freedom. But the 34-year-old, who fled Iran to avoid persecution for his political beliefs and is now studying surveying and writing poetry, has frequent nightmares and panic attacks; the verse he writes is always dark. He has been recognized as a refugee by the Australian government, but he can't shake free of the four years he spent in detention fighting for that recognition, or forget the attempted suicides, mental illness and mistreatment he saw there. He still becomes upset when...
Carolyn and Keith have met with Bush four times, all during the President's frequent campaign trips to the crucial electoral state of Ohio last year. The Army casualty-assistance officer assigned to the Maupin family took Keith to the barbershop to trim his long beard--and to Sears to buy a suit--for his first meeting with the Commander in Chief; Keith has vowed not to tame his beard until his son is found. "He really didn't know much either," Keith says of the President. "But he said, 'They're looking for him, they...
...participants, NuRide offers a frequent rider bonus: anyone who shares a ride gets a $1 gift certificate from such companies as Brookstone and XM Satellite Radio. So far, 2,300 people have signed up. NuRide CEO Rick Steele estimates that more than 50,000 rides have been arranged on the site, resulting in 1.4 million fewer miles driven and 650 fewer tons of automobile emissions. "I do it to save on gasoline and reduce my stress load," says Dan Kulpinski, a senior programming manager at America Online, who has arranged 100 trips, mostly for the 55-min. commute from...
...neurologist, I found the suggestion of Asperger’s syndrome in Summers to be particularly shaky. By seeking out social contact, having an animated and interactive discussion style, making frequent eye contact, having wide interests, and not needing constant reassurance, President Summers exhibits many characteristics opposite to those found in Asperger’s syndrome...
...Euro-trash culture. “I am Naked,” the album’s lead single, is a prime example, as German singer Brezel Goring prattles on in kitty-cat vocals at a second-grade register about the virtues of nudity. The bad translations (and the frequent intrusion of a gruff gravelly-voiced “rapper”) can’t help but bring to mind the debt the band owes to Björk’s Icelandic ’80s band the Sugarcubes, for both groups’ consciousness of (and commitment...