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...Author Mary Pipher styled her piece “In Praise of Hometowns” like a Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul heartwarmer, romancing about one’s “personal slice” of ecological heaven: “Your slice of heaven may be the Iron Range or North Beach or Central Park or Chesapeake Bay or Harvard Square,” Pipher writes. “Join with your neighbors to enjoy those places and work to keep them for your great-grandchildren.” Other themes of the book include faith-based sustainability...
Since Dzerzhinsky was, along with Vladimir Lenin, the driving impetus behind this savagery, he was given the nickname “Iron Felix.” At his orders, captured “enemies” of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones...
...officer was sent to Stoughton Hall to check a room for an unattended and possibly plugged-in iron. The officer located the iron, but it was not plugged...
...insulting to think that Arab families don't have the same motives. Yet tapping that sentiment to build a constituency for change won't be easy. Those east of the Iron Curtain, Geoana points out, were conscious that Western Europe offered them an alternative that was geographically and culturally close. No Arab state, yet, acts as such a model. Moreover, in Europe, change was associated with the rejection of imperial--in this case, Russian--rule. But in Iraq, regime change through the force of American arms could easily be seen as the reimposition of imperialism. Fairly...
...better. Men who ran an hour or more weekly were 42% less likely to develop heart disease--more than twice the benefit of walking 30 min. a day. Men who lifted weights cut their cardiac risk 23%. It may be best to pick up the pace and pump iron, but doing anything is always better than doing nothing. --By David Bjerklie...