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...Hassan stalks through the cancer ward of the Basra hospital where several children lie hooked up to intravenous drips. She shows hideous photographs of damaged children, many of them little more than lumps of meat. Those did not make it, but there are plenty that would survive if only they had some medication. But these are poor people and cannot afford medicines. Cancer drugs, for instance, fall under the dual use category and are listed under UN sanctions. So, although medical services are highly subsidized in Iraq, these children can have no treatment. Leukemia patients are given a blood transfusion...
...base of the mountains, Highway 101 snakes around the Olympic peninsula following a silent, morose track through endless clear cuts. Coarse and hideous, with brush piled in heaps, the naked scars on the mountains emanate destruction and death. Here, the logging companies clear cut the land entirely, and then commence ‘sustainable logging practices,’ which entail replanting the tracts in rows of trees that grow until they are large enough to be cut again...
...scandals. They would do well to hark back to their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth, serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair." The colonies may be gone, but Churchill showed how the supple power of the English language - whose reach still grows - can forge an empire on which the sun need never...
People's princess and petulant self-promoter, devoted mom and lost soul, calculating, mesmerizing: once again we have occasion to consider the endless contradictions that transformed Diana, Princess of Wales, from nonentity to icon during her brief life and hideous death. In the imposing, high-domed Court 1 at London's Old Bailey last week, her faithful butler Paul Burrell - the man she called "my rock" - was on trial for theft. But Diana was the hovering presence. Last year, police found in Burrell's house in Cheshire a trove of Dianiana - more than 300 items in all - stuffed into...
...homes are built out of hope and anxiety. Are we warm? Are we loving? If not, can we fake it with a few houseplants? Our homes are where our personalities and imaginations are nakedly on display, and we continually suspect they are lacking. And judging by the number of hideous paneled rec rooms being redone on TLC, Discovery, HGTV, BBC America, DIY Network and beyond, we just may be right...