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...generation ago, San Sebastián de los Reyes was a sleepy bedroom community of 27,000 people at the northern tip of greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse...
...Koran and drafted cellmates to join his quest to overthrow Jordan's secular rulers. "Either you were with them or you were an enemy," a former prison mate told TIME in 2004. "There was no gray area." Al-Zarqawi drifted back to Afghanistan and passed through Iran and northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion in March 2003. In the chaotic days after the fall of Saddam, al-Zarqawi began to build a terrorist network by luring foreign jihadis to Iraq. He pulled off his first two spectacular attacks with the August 2003 bombings of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad...
...steer away from sweetened, packaged "fruit" products- such as fried banana chips- which can be high in saturated fat and contain far more sugar than the fruit they're derived from. "They're not far away from regular candy," says Tim Radak, a nutritionist and program manager at the Northern California Cancer Center. "They may throw in fruit juice and call them fruit snacks, but they're quite far from a real piece of fruit...
...adding that he thinks the system of compulsory insurance will be expensive for those who will have to pay, and inadequate for those whose insurance will be subsidized. Lasser, Himmelstein, and Woolhandler all work at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a network of hospitals and community health centers in the northern suburbs of Boston. “The kind of patients I treat are the kind of patients who would benefit from universal healthcare,” said Lasser. “I think it’s important that we extend health insurance to all sections of our society...
After an up-and-down beginning of the season, the Harvard women’s water polo team turned it on down the stretch. Shaking off three early losses to rival Brown, the Crimson beat the Bears, 6-5, on April 23 at the Northern Championships, clinching a berth at the year-end Eastern Championships. At Easterns, Harvard battled against higher-ranked seeds Indiana and Maryland before losing in the fourth quarter, 7-6 and 4-3, respectively, to finish No. 8 among the eight schools in the tournament. “Those were the toughest eight teams I have...