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...develop North Sinai," and says the area is awaiting a visit from President Hosni Mubarak, who has held power for 28 years and is currently recovering from major surgery in a German hospital even as Egypt frets about the succession, human rights and political stability. "We are a very normal country," Mwafi says, smiling...
...describe your client base as being made up of seemingly normal people - stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, rabbis and bus drivers. What is it about this world that you think appeals to them? Well, for most of my clients, it wasn't so much the world that appealed to them. For many, it was a very private experience. They were often led to the dungeon by their own desires and fantasies - ones that they didn't feel safe or brave enough to explore or voice in their personal lives. The dungeon felt like a safe haven, their domme a trusted person with...
...adjust to normal office life after an experience like that? I didn't. It was miserable, boring, and the pay was abysmal. I quit so fast, and went back to the dungeon for another year...
...challenger. "It is going to be uphill for White to win," says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "Texas is the largest red state in the country. It tends to vote Republican by an 8-, 9-, 10-point margin." That is in a normal year, Jillson says, not one in which the political mood is downright rebellious...
...findings is that the blind push to lower all risk factors such as blood pressure or cholesterol isn't necessarily healthy, says Dr. Christopher Saudek, director of the diabetes center at Johns Hopkins University. That may even mean resisting the commonsense urge to reduce these measures to recommended or normal range in diabetics patients. "To me, it's a matter of having reasonable and patient-oriented individual targets," he says, "rather than trying to push and push and push just to get lower and lower glucose or blood pressure or lipid levels...