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...ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000. Bashar's humble ambition was to leave politics to others in the clan and become a doctor. In the early '90s he went to London to study ophthalmology. There he courted his wife Asma, a young banker of Syrian origin who is fluent in four languages. When the gangly young man, now 37, rose to power three years ago, many hoped that an era of modernization, freedom, perhaps even peace was at hand...
...heart attack even when they feel perfectly healthy. So while women are more likely to experience the prelude to an attack as shortness of breath, extreme fatigue or a feeling that they have a bad case of indigestion, they often can't believe that their symptoms are cardiac in origin. Equally important, their doctors often don't believe it either. Doctors tend to put off ordering necessary tests for women having a heart attack or fail to treat them aggressively enough...
...began with DJs spinning music at parties, and Jurassic take this origin to heart, putting their collective energies into live performance. During their show at Brandeis University last month, they declared: “We don’t give concerts. We throw parties...
...origin of most of this artwork is unknown to Dudley’s current residents, who can only recall the art that they added themselves: a few sugar-cereal boxes and newly painted walls. Rather than adding new work, they take pride in discovering interesting details in the art that already surrounds them already on the walls—such as a photograph of some former residents recreating Raphael’s “School of Athens” or the paper clock adjacent to an actual one, mounted upside-down...
Confessing confusion over the origin of his own athletic skills—he played three sports in high school—Morgalis more than made up for suspect beginnings with his baseball prowess. He played for Midland during the summers from age 14 to 18, and the 90-game schedules which dominated his life paid off with a national championship when he was 17. His most memorable baseball moments came while on the Notre Dame team which advanced to the College World Series his freshman year...