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...Time heals," said Ed Adkins, as he held on the steel gate guarding ground zero. "Sometimes I want to cry, but not often." Atkins served as a chaplain at the makeshift morgue set up in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. He gave last rites to victims there, and at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island where debris and human remains were taken. "There are thousands of stories that people are never going to hear," he said. "But we?re going...
...Anyone who has seen an action movie knows we can take quite a beating yet be oblivious to pain. This is neural blockade at the highest level - in the brain. But it can happen all the way down to the nerve-ending level. There is a well-known pain gate in the spinal cord; regional anesthesia controls pain by temporarily blocking nerve transmission via chemicals injected around more peripheral nerves. Farther down toward the pain-associated nerve endings we create neural blockade with topical anesthetics (like what the dentist puts on your gum so you don't feel the novocaine...
...July--they hail from India, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand--are seen as real contenders. A straw poll expected later this month should feature new and prominent names. Says a senior U.N. official: "The most important countries don't seem to like the horses in the starting gate, so they'll have to roam the paddocks looking for better material." Insiders expect Prince Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's U.N. envoy, to declare, though handicappers note that an Arab might be viewed as insufficiently impartial, given the turmoil in the Middle East. Other possible candidates are former Malaysian Deputy...
...Apple Store (which offers in-store service), J. Crew, Old Navy, H&M, Express, and Victoria’s Secret, making the Galleria a one-stop shop for fashion on a budget. You and your roommates can get to it by taking the 69 (yes, really) bus from Johnston Gate to Lechmere. The mall is across the street from the station...
...decision by Paramount to end a business relationship with an A-list star like Cruise comes as all of the major studios are sweating out the gate receipt tallies every weekend, aggressively cutting the size of star-driven production deals and all other costs, and looking for ways to mitigate financial risks. It's a reflection of just how sensitive their publicly traded corporate parents have become about any issue that could pose a threat to the bottom line. It probably wasn't lost on Paramount executives that about half of the people queried in a USA Today/Gallup poll several...