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...first book, I tried very hard to not deal with any of my mother's emotional problems because I knew that they would embarrass her. She wasn't alive anymore, but still she was there in my head. But my editor said that I had to. I thought, "Well, hey, it's a memoir. All right. I'll confess she was bipolar." I felt bad about it. But you have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they're going or not be a writer...
...tell the researchers which group they were in.) Those who received real bleach were instructed to draw a bath twice a week with a heavily diluted bleach solution - a half-cup of bleach per 40 gallons of water - and immerse their limbs and torsos, leaving the neck and head above water, for five to 10 minutes each time. They were told to pat dry afterward and apply a heavy slathering of moisturizer. The placebo group was not given restrictions about the frequency of baths. Both groups of patients were also treated with oral antibiotics and the nasal ointment muciprocin...
...boost the halal-food industry and other local projects does not address the conflict's complex roots. By blankly rejecting Amnesty International's recent claims that the Thai military was systematically torturing Malay Muslims, Abhisit also struck a yoga position familiar in Thai politics: saving face by burying your head in the sand...
...water quality, water management is still abysmal; according to the U.N., half of the 24 Asian and Australian eco-regions are severely or moderately affected by pollution, and conditions are expected to get worse. Asia lacks the strong regional institutions necessary to promote better water policies across borders and head off potential resource conflicts. "We have to go beyond existing networks," says Ali, who notes that no global treaty is currently in place on water. "What we have now isn't enough...
...arsenal lacked anything to match Georgia's Israeli-made spy drones, according to Paul Holtom, senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Indeed, Russian troops operated with no modern surveillance or night-vision equipment at all, according to Russian Duma hearings last October. Says Vadim Kozyulin, head of the conventional-arms program at the Center for Policy Studies in Moscow: "Our army was modern at the end of the 1980s. Since then it has been allowed to stagnate...