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...concurrent theme—concurrent with wanting to be a vet as a little girl. I didn’t start writing for real until I was in my mid to late twenties, but I’d always worked with animals and veterinarians. I’d been a surgical assistant for one. Oh, wait, do you hear that? Snoring dog in the background...
Rosenthal said that at the beginning of the school year that he was hoping to receive shipments of H1N1 vaccine in mid-October, but that he now anticipates waiting until the beginning or middle of November...
...Sakamaki, a Japanese photojournalist, traveled around Xinjiang in mid-August, not long after the worst bout of interethnic violence in years had rocked the regional capital of Urumqi. Sakamaki, a veteran of conflict zones from Liberia to Sri Lanka, was struck by the air of tension. In Xinjiang, he says, there is an almost irreconcilable divide between the Uighurs and the Han. "They don't live with each other, they don't communicate to each other and they don't understand each other...
...almost impossible to explain. Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago. (Fun fact: the first e-mail was sent in 1971 between two Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which is why e-mail was created in the image of the paper-postal system: tiny squirts of electronic text. (See the 50 best websites...
...late as mid-summer, it appeared that Democrats and the bishops were on track to work out an understanding. In late July, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, who at the time was heading the USCCB's pro-life committee, sent a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that appeared to signal that there was room to accommodate Catholic concerns. The USCCB, Rigali wrote, wanted health reform to continue the policy of preventing "direct federal funding of abortion." The language was important because it seemed to match an amendment drafted by Representative Lois Capps, a Democrat...