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Four months earlier, the medics had raced to the scene of a shooting, only to find the victim dead from blood loss, ripped apart by bullets from an AK-47. After an initial review, they left the scene--unaware that the dead man clutched an unpinned grenade beneath him, an explosive the military later defused. "If the medics had just moved the body a little, the grenade could have exploded," says ambulance chief González. "Not even a bulletproof jacket could save them from that. The only way we are going to be safer is if this violence calms down...
...days of loss and uncertainty, there is particular comfort in the once-a-year hymns, the green-bean recipe you don't really like but would still miss at Thanksgiving, the recurring commitments that remind us what's certain, what's fleeting. Timber and stone, flesh and blood may change--a grandfather dies, a house burns down--but the traditions survive; they are made of love and longing for what we value, and so we hold them close and take them wherever we go. They are wonderfully portable, as anyone who has ever improvised a Thanksgiving in someone else...
...indeed. Obama's greatest achievement was that he managed to win the presidency while respecting the intelligence of the American people. Oh, he pandered some and at times nudged up against the line of acceptable political behavior: he did claim, falsely, that McCain was responsible for the loss of 8,000 jobs in Ohio. But he was solid on all the big stuff. He refused to take tawdry short cuts, like supporting a "gas-tax holiday" during the primaries against Hillary Clinton. He has, since the election, remained true to the promises and philosophy he proposed during the campaign. Most...
First it was fat, then it was carbs and, in recent years, the buzzword for the diet-conscious has become glycemic index. That's a measure of how quickly a food is broken down and absorbed by the body, and it's the driving principle behind such weight-loss plans as the Atkins and South Beach diets. But while scientific studies have documented the impact of too much dietary fat and carbohydrate on the body - making us heavier and increasing our risk of diabetes and heart disease - the evidence has not been as clear for high- or low-glycemic index...
...have the space for a while so let’s rage our faces off,” Schwartz said. After addressing the crowd, Schwartz walked around the room hugging and thanking supporters. “I’m fine,” Biggers said after the loss. “It’s definitely disappointing...People really did believe in us.” While “Universal Waste”—a prominent UC election blog written by several UC insiders and members of the Harvard College Democrats—had been predicting...