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...Lowdown: This report is not for the faint of heart - and not just because of its length. It serves as a grim reminder that sometimes a soldier's greatest enemy is the government he or she is fighting for. As the panel notes, it took nearly 20 years before the U.S. admitted that its use of Agent Orange had adversely affected soldiers during Vietnam, and it's taken just as long for Gulf War veterans to get GWI recognized as an actual medical condition. As the report's authors state, "addressing the serious and persistent health problems that affect Gulf...
...Green asparagus that is not green for 80% or more of its length • Cucumbers that bend by a curve of more than 10 mm per 10 cm • Cauliflower less than 11 cm in diameter • Forked carrots...
...Harvard still won 35-3, concluding its seventh unbeaten, untied season. 2005: In the first triple-overtime game in Ivy League history the Crimson pulls out a 30-24 win and defeats Yale for the fifth straight year. 2006: Two MIT streakers disrupted the game; one made it the length of the field before being dragged off, the other made it ten steps out of the stands...
...leadership decisions regarding the growing militancy in the country. Addressing journalists at a press conference at the presidential palace, Karzai said, "If I hear from [Omar] that he is willing to come to Afghanistan or to negotiate for peace ... I, as the President of Afghanistan, will go to any length to provide him [with] protection...
...smooth, seductive rap, unfolding in much the same way in book after book. The Daughters of Joy is no exception. Unlike Chopra's previous novel Soulmate, which dwelt at length on specifically Eastern ideas like karma and reincarnation, Daughters focuses on a figure long popular in Western myth and legend, and among contemporary New Agers as well: the Wise Woman. Its slim plot revolves around Jess Conover, a young reporter at a Boston newspaper. Confused, adrift and emotionally anemic, Jess stumbles, seemingly by chance, on a classified ad in a newspaper: "Love has found you. Tell no one. Just come...