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...bodies under the rubble. There are many dead," said Mouein Safadi, 35, trembling with fatigue and emotion as he reached the first Lebanese army position nearly 200 meters from the edge of the camp. "There are tens of wounded, but nobody can reach them," said Nora Abdel-Wahad, a mother, 51. "There's no water, no food. We have lived three days with no electricity." A Palestinian employee of the U.N. agency responsible for the refugees said that the tiny medical clinic in the camp - home to some 40,000 people - had been completely overwhelmed. "The wounded cannot move anywhere...
Most of all, he couldn't focus on living there while his buddies were dying in Iraq. His mother Ava Tomson says, "He felt like the things he was doing in his job were insignificant compared to protecting his guys...
Starcevich was one of those kids who seem born into uniform. As a youth, he had a set of junior fatigues he wore as often as his mother would let him. "I used to have to wait until Lucas went to sleep to get it off him to wash it," says Tomson...
...Neusner insists it doesn't parse. A Rabbi Talks argues, for instance, that Jesus' line that "he who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me" defies the commandment to "honor thy father and mother" and that his liberties with Saturday rules on grounds that "the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath" flout the one that explicitly orders all humans to observe the day. Most important, Neusner read Jesus' repeated rhetorical formula "You have heard that it was said [in the Torah] ... But I say to you ... " as his claim...
...next five years, the Mikols did everything they could to give Julia a normal childhood. But when Julia's condition worsened, the 8-year-old refused the recommended heart-and-lung transplant, and her parents reluctantly agreed with her decision. Before her death, Julia asked her mother to promise to help other children. "You got me home," she told Margaret in the sign language she used to communicate. "You've got to get them home...