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DEFINITION daya-bu-lee-mi-uh n: When Type I diabetics skip or reduce insulin injections to lose weight...
...Postcard: Woolong" [April 30]: For a species that numbers only 1,600 and has a habitat of barely 5,000 sq. mi., reintroducing pandas into the wild might turn out to be an important complement to the more basic need to conserve habitat. China deserves credit for making the world aware of the panda's plight and for getting East and West to cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain...
...those viewing the war in Iraq from afar, reports from inside the Green Zone can make this ravaged city look almost serene. Protected on two sides by the wide, caramel-colored waters of the Tigris and surrounded by high cement walls, the 4-sq.-mi. Green Zone (officially called the International Zone) sits in the middle of Baghdad and is home to thousands of people, including many members of the Iraqi government. Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the Green Zone has been the seat of U.S. power in Iraq, first in the form of the ill-fated Coalition Provisional...
...think General Motors will name a car after you? -Bobby Ball, Hemlock, MI Of course not! My grandmother called me that [Chevy] and I never asked her why she named me that. I think I assumed it was a cute sort of nickname and it probably came from the city outside of Washington. And it turned out to be a good stage name...
...America—at least for the proud 32 percent of us who stand behind our President. I still use Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” to drown out Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) when watching the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on C-SPAN. When Mr. Keith growls, “We’ll put a boot up your ass/It’s the American way,” I can’t help but grin...