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...edge of town. A little girl cups her ears with her hands and wails each time firing breaks out. A 5-year-old boy gingerly waves a white flag. Insurgents duck and weave across housetops a few blocks away, trading fire as they withdraw back into their nest in the Sarai neighborhood...
...types of Army helicopters, same for the Navy. Then there's Customs, Coast Guard, Marines, and then there are the news helicopters." While rescuing a group of blind people trapped for five days, a Marine helicopter pilot told TIME's Tim Padgett, "It's like flying into a hornets' nest...
...toward refinancing. He predicts that there will be a great boomer sell-off in about 15 years and that the market will be glutted. If you need cash from your house for your golden years, it's better to sell now and downsize, applying the appreciation toward boosting your nest...
Marine Lt. Ed Cunningham's warning was spot-on: "It will be like flying into a hornet's nest." As he and Capt. Bryan Willard piloted their large, CH-53 helicopter closer to New Orleans on Saturday, the sky was frenetically dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below. They searched for Hurricane Katrina survivors in large venues like the Convention Center-where a lone military air traffic controller with the call sign "Superman 00" somehow directed the evacuation...
Like their teenage counterparts, victims of midlife eating disorders tend to suffer from low self-esteem and perfectionism, according to those who treat them. But the triggers for their problem have a distinctly midlife flavor--divorce, an empty nest or the death of a spouse, parent or child. About half those affected are women who struggled with food-related issues in their youth. "This generation of women was brought up to be superwomen, and whether it's the supermom or the woman with the incredible job, both are expected to be beautiful," says Kearney-Cooke, a co-author of Change...