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...another fierce fight in the country's far south at Takhta Pul, near Kandahar, last week showed the risks and grim moral compromises inherent in their trade, at least when it comes to the time-honoured task of 'setting the East ablaze' by working with warlords and their irregular armies...
...Jamaican accent and stood very tall. She had just begun her first day as a temporary employee in my building and said she knew only two or three people downtown. I remember my first weeks downtown. Because it is the oldest part of the city, the roads intersect at irregular and often unexpected angles. It took me weeks to find my bearings and, even now, I have to imagine a grid in my head to find my way. I cannot imagine how disoriented she must have felt...
...published in Britain this year. Playing with genetics is complicated by the fact that breeding to emphasize one characteristic can have unforeseen consequences in the complex biological interaction between genes. Dalmatians are prone to deafness, maybe due to some genetic link between hearing and white pigmentation. Dogs with large irregular patches and splotches are less prone, but prize-winning Dalmatians have small spots on a large expanse of white coat - the genetic characteristics that accompany deafness. All these diseases create distress to dogs and owners, and as Dogs Today editor Beverley Cuddy notes, "It's possible to rack up huge...
When Cheney entered the hospital last Saturday just after 8 a.m., doctors gave him a mild sedative, then threaded a wire through one of the veins in his right leg up to his heart. By sending different electrical pulses through the wire, the physicians succeeded in re-creating the irregular heartbeats that were picked up by the Holter monitor. Then they figured out where to place the lead wires from the ICD to ensure that it would deliver the correct voltage to the appropriate spots on the heart whenever the heart needed to resume a normal beat...
With the device in place, the Vice President's prognosis is good. Patients with an irregular heartbeat who get these mechanical aids cut in half their chance of dying from a cardiac event...