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...largest malls. Last Friday, July 17, a pair of bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, killing seven innocent people (plus the two suicide bombers). Yet by July 20 local residents appeared to be returning to life as normal. Indonesia had enjoyed a four-year lull in terrorist attacks, in part chalked up to a concerted government campaign to arrest and re-educate extremists. Although the blasts jolted a nation into realizing that terrorism was no longer a thing of the past, the prevailing attitude among Jakartans seemed to be one of determined resilience. "Bad things...
...back after surviving her first day of cross-examination by the Senate Judiciary Committee without any kind of gaffe. Despite the best efforts of some Republicans to elicit a hot-tempered response, the Supreme Court nominee answered every question in the same deliberate, dulcet tones that seemed to lull her opposition into, if not complacency, then at least resignation. In between grilling her on abortion and reports of her tempestuous temperament, Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, even declared: "I like you, by the way, for whatever that matters. Since I may vote for you that ought to matter...
...thought it was a good effort," said injured Redline co-captain Chris Stevens. "We kind of hit a lull in late March, early April, but I found the team on Saturday playing with the intensity that we had been lacking...
...sure [she was] excited and I’m sure she told her players to get after it hard. We’ve been having some trouble lately, and I’m sure they looked at our schedule and thought we were vulnerable.”After a lull in the action, Columbia stretched the lead back to three, giving Harvard a sense of urgency heading into the last ten minutes of the game. Petropulous scored her third and fourth goals of the contest in 48 seconds to match her career high and breathe life into the Crimson, down...
When someone with a terminal illness decides to end his or her life by overdosing on barbiturates, they may hope the drugs will lull them into a peaceful and permanent sleep. But if the drugs have passed their expiration date or lack a sufficiently lethal concentration, the would-be suicide victim may actually survive - risking an array of complications including coma, reduced physical functioning and the opprobrium of disapproving friends and family. Now, in an effort to provide certainty to those contemplating suicide, one of the world's leading euthanasia advocates plans to sell barbiturate-testing kits to confirm that...