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Deborah Rodriguez left two sons and a failed marriage behind in Holland, Michigan, when she headed to war-shattered Afghanistan in 2002 with a few weeks of disaster-relief training and a suitcase full of moist towelettes. "I imagined I would spend the month there bandaging wounds, splinting broken limbs, clambering over the rubble, and helping people who were still hiding from the Taliban," she writes. "I didn't have any idea that I'd still be here five years later doing spiral perms and introducing the art of pubic waxing...
...revolutionary view of extreme headaches that treats them as serious, biologically based disorders on a par with epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease. "Before, patients got shipped around from doctor to doctor until eventually they wound up at a psychologist," says Dr. Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. Now their headaches are seen as the result of wayward circuits and molecules, not personality disorders...
...wrong slang, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right to say it. If you don't like what someone has to say, don't listen. Truly offensive speech does not dignify a response. Daniel J. Graeber, Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...their strip-club humor and sexist, racist remarks. I commend Cox for not tolerating it any longer. But she shouldn't be so hard on herself about putting up with it before: it's still a man's world. Thankfully, that's starting to change. Linda Plackowski, Midland, Michigan...
...slang to use, and it ended his career. I am not defending what Imus said; I only defend his right to say it. If you don't like what someone has to say, don't listen. Truly offensive speech does not dignify a response. Daniel J. Graeber, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, U.S. Many Imus admirers are asking, whatever happened to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and freedom of expression in this country? Well, we all believe in free speech, but that doesn't give anyone license to insult someone else's ethnicity, religion or gender...