Word: manners
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...into his colon a tube with a wire snare attached to remove the polyp they knew about, and an optical device to allow close examination of the intestine. The second polyp they discovered was too large (about the size of a baby's finger) to be removed in that manner; all they could do then was scrape off some cells from the polyp's periphery for a biopsy. Though Reagan was conscious, he knew none of this at the time. By 3:20 p.m. he was being wheeled to a recovery room, Nancy walking alongside, and assayed a one-liner...
...apology for the excesses of the Crusades indicated his understanding that Islam is both one of Catholicism's great competitors and, in many places, its next-door neighbor. Sept. 11 was perhaps the first great issue that the Pope, by then physically weakened, addressed in a less than aggressive manner, and the Vatican sense of urgency regarding Islam's various faces, although as keen as the rest of the world's, remains papally undefined. "It's the 800-lb. gorilla sitting in the room," says a well-placed Vatican source. "It's huge and expanding, has violent elements, so what...
Somewhere in there, too, is a substantial amount of socio-political subtext, but it’s dropped in such a half-hearted, haphazard manner that any commentary ultimately gets lost among all the flashy explosions. Sure, such lines as “No one pays attention to Africa” pop up now and then, but they appear jarring amidst gunfire battles and elaborate speed-boat chases...
...Democrats’ decline—not least the collapse of the once “Solid South,” and a pretty sorry bunch of presidential nominees (including a president who never once sacrificed to serve his party). But often overlooked is the increasingly ideological manner in which the two parties define themselves...
...utmost importance that the countries providing aid to the region not only install these systems in a timely and accurate manner, but similarly provide essential infrastructure and bureaucratic procedures necessary to ensure that the warnings can be used effectively. These tragedies may not be avoidable, but minimizing devastation is well within reach. The world just needs to step up to the plate...