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...that anyone is campaigning for the job--at least not openly. Running for Pope is a peculiar affair, mostly because one is not supposed to do it. In 1996, two years after he broke his leg and set in motion what some observers see as a quiet struggle to succeed him, John Paul II, like Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost...
...Grams, who lost last year to millionaire challengers (and now freshman senators) Maria Cantwell and Mark Dayton. Susan Collins of Maine, a state where at least two rich Democrats are rumored to be considering a challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...
...positive for Harvard going into this weekend's games will be the return of sophomore catcher Monica Montijo. Montijo suffered a massive leg injury that required 300 stitches when she was cleated over two weeks ago on the team's California road trip. Ironically, Montijo will be making her return against the same Golden Bear team that inflicted the leg injury...
...Clots can form at various points in the leg, causing varying degrees of discomfort. ?You?ve got valves four-to-six inches up all of your veins,? says Kesteven. With DVT, ?you may form a little lump of a clot behind one of the valves.? Although the clots themselves are not life-threatening, the complications can be. The most serious is a pulmonary embolism?which occurs in 25-30% of DVT cases?when a piece of the clot breaks off and travels to the lung. In rare instances, part of a clot may lodge in other organs, including the brain...
...back as molten rain, exploding on impact like mortar shells, ripping through bodies and setting them on fire. Two scientists were instantly vaporized. One was literally cut in half. The exploding mountain shot a nickel-size hole through Williams' skull, mangling his face, setting his clothes afire, breaking one leg and nearly tearing the foot off the other...