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...breakfast a month after the election to give the incoming guy some advice, the old-timer among them had some special, reassuring words for Rahm Emanuel. Former Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had been a White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, noted that Emanuel has a leg up on some of his predecessors. Unlike many chiefs of staff, Emanuel comes to the job with the experience of having been a power player on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. "You've been here before, so you know the place," Rumsfeld told him. "And you've been on Capitol...
...asked not to be named. Part of the reason the disease is complicated to control is its long latency. Rabies symptoms manifest within two to three weeks if a person has been bitten on the face, or as late as 12 months if the bite is on the leg. Generally, if an infected person is not vaccinated immediately, there is little chance of survival...
...closely with Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya before she was murdered in 2006 and had recently begun to look into the circumstances behind the November attack on journalist Mikhail Beketov, a beating that left Beketov in a coma for two weeks and resulted in the amputation of a leg and some fingers...
...That attack was followed by several more. On Jan. 11, a man surfing near Fingal Head in northern New South Wales was bitten on the thigh. Jonathon Beard, 31, made it to shore and survived after his friends used the leg rope from his surfboard to stem the bleeding...
...dragged under the water by what authorities suspect was a large white pointer. Her cousin paddled to the injured girl and dragged her to safety while being circled by the shark. On Jan. 12, a man snorkeling in a tidal lake in New South Wales was bitten on the leg, probably by a bull shark. Authorities reported that the man punched the shark in the nose and made it to shore with about 40 puncture wounds. All of the victims are recovering...