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...reason to worry, she said. How do you mean, I asked, you're still on the road? Well, it was being on the road did it, she explained - in fact, she had learned that a 10-minute ride on the local roads in an old ambulance, its suspension long gone, is a standard treatment for strangulated hernias in these parts. "For all the years I've been working here," the orderly told my wife, "no patient's strangulated hernia has failed to repair itself on the road to the hospital." Still, they had to finish the journey lest the ambulance...
...code under which they are formed - which, Obama said, will spend "millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations" to damage his reputation. (So far, a well-funded 527 movement against him has not materialized.) His Republican rival, John McCain, said Obama "has completely reversed himself and gone back, not on his word to me, but the commitment he made to the American people." McCain, has said he will accept the public funding available for the general campaign, although he is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee, alleging he violated election funding rules...
...Gary, 70, sat stiffly in his chair, tuning in to and out of the conversation. An architect with a Ph.D. in urban engineering, he has developed a tremor in his left hand, and he's so unsteady on his feet that he's taken several falls. "My legs are gone," he says. "I'm very numb from the knees down." Perhaps more alarming are the changes in his personality. The first sign was hoarding household items. "Then I started noticing that he became antisocial," says his wife Mary. "He didn't want to go out. And he didn't want...
...comes as no surprise to me," Butterfield says. "Gas prices, food prices, salmonella - the world has gone absolutely crazy. And for a lot of people, that brings up this need to take control over what happens in their own yard. If all goes to hell, you can just lock the gate and stay at home...
After years of attacking Democrats with relative impunity for their supposed moral failings, Evangelical leader James Dobson surely didn't expect to suffer much of a backlash when he trained his sights on Barack Obama. Over the years, the party had practically cowered in fear and gone into radio silence when the head of Focus on the Family targeted one of its standard-bearers. So in a campaign that has already proved to be anything but predictable, the counterattack on Dobson this week epitomized the new, fraught political climate that Christian Right leaders like himself face...