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Helluva nice guy, this football player - and big. His knee was the size of my head. It was an arthritic knee, as you would expect - a routine problem, like hundreds of others any orthopedist sees every year. Was I extra-nice to him, though, his being a star and all? Did I do anything different that day, just a little? I like to think not, always having tried never to be a "respecter of persons...
...acres (6,500 hectares) of hashish and a small amount of opium poppies were planted this year on the sun-baked plain of the northern Bekaa. "Lebanese hashish is the best in the world, better than Turkey and Afghanistan," says Ali, a Bekaa farmer standing in his field of knee-high hashish plants, the spiky saw-toothed cannabis leaves swaying gently in the hot breeze. Ali and other hashish farmers interviewed by TIME requested their real names not be printed...
...anything. This survey that I did, it's really interesting; 56% of people felt that in order to be successful they had to slow their lives down. But 77% felt that things would only speed up in the next five years. So the knee-jerk reaction is that in order for us to feel like we're enjoying anything, we have to slow down. [But] things aren't slowing down...
...squeezed onto too small a foundation. Before Bhutto--who founded the Pakistan People's Party--was hanged, he had requested nothing more than a humble marble slab to mark his grave. But in Pakistani politics, image is everything. It's a lesson Benazir Bhutto learned at her father's knee. Hence her decision a dozen years ago to build him an ornate, 130-ft. (40 m) onion dome in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...
...notching 10 team blocks en route to a 3-1 (30-28, 30-24, 26-30, 30-18) win over the Bears (2-11, 0-3 Ivy). Trimble dominated the net with 19 kills and recorded a .372 hitting percentage despite playing through the pain of a partially torn knee tendon.“She’s a trooper,” Weiss said. “She’s kind of learned to live with it.”Meanwhile, Mahon recorded 18 kills and 19 digs, as the squad picked up its first league victory...