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Insurgents appear to be adopting a similar strategy up north in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city. In mid-November, at the height of Operation al-Fajr, Mosul erupted in violence as gangs of fighters attacked police stations and engaged in pitched street battles with U.S. and Iraqi forces. It took the Americans and their Iraqi partners the better part of a week to regain control, and a U.S. battalion had to be recalled from Fallujah to help. The attackers "showed a degree of local command and control we have not seen before," says Brigadier General Carter Ham, commander...
...Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee followed nearly 300 women over a period of 24 years and then, when the women were between the ages of 70 and 84, performed C.T. scans on their brains. Not surprisingly, body-mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height) increased as the women aged. In addition, the women with the highest BMI turned out to be the most likely to have suffered atrophy, or wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise in BMI, the risk of temporal-lobe atrophy...
Though the prices of tomatoes have yet to return to their normal levels, they have tumbled drastically since the height of the shortage when the price per case of tomatoes, normally about $15, neared $70. Current prices are closer...
Sophomore Sandra Stankovic led the way in the field events, winning the high jump by clearing a height of 1.65 meters. Freshman Jitka Vinduskova finished third in that event with a jump of 1.60 meters to go along with her second-place finish in the shot...
...crowd was relatively quiet and composed throughout the entire set; most likely because for Dylan enthusiasts, his concerts are a nearly surreal act of worshipping an icon at the height of his talent. To watch Dylan perform is an experience altogether different from simply listening to or singing along with Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks, requiring both rapt attention and a nearly Zen attitude towards the unpredictable nature of the artist...