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...region, also have a slightly different take on the role of the militias in the area, who they say are generally not responsible for most of the attacks against coalition forces. "It is rogue elements inside the militias that are causing most of the problems," explained Major Chris Ormond-King, a British Army spokesman. "The militias as whole are not inherently a problem. In fact in some neighborhoods they help control crime, and need to be included in part of the political solution...
...deal," says McCaughrean. "But I thought, No, I'm damned if I'm going to be daunted. I'll just enjoy myself." Why McCaughrean? The identity of the other competing authors is a strict secret, but it's a safe bet that the trustees of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (gosh), to whom Barrie bequeathed the royalties of Peter Pan in 1929, had more bankable names than hers to pick from. She jokes that fame has eluded her because her name is hard to pronounce (say Ma-cork-run) and has to be printed small...
DIED. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80, trailblazing Congresswoman and candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination; in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first black woman to sit in Congress, she championed such concerns of her underprivileged Brooklyn constituency as day-care funding and minimum wages for domestic workers. Describing herself as "unbought and unbossed," she criticized Congress as being run by "a small group of old men" and protested the "petrified" seniority system that initially placed her on the Agriculture Committee...
...What the hell do I do now? I still want a companion.'" Mynchenberg finally tried a method that he never dreamed would suit him: online dating. He joined four e-dating services, which he refers to as "friendship clubs." Every morning in his waterfront home in Ormond Beach, Fla., Mynchenberg sits down at his computer and sifts through the profiles of dozens of women, searching for an intelligent 69-to-79-year-old Floridian with whom he can share conversation, travels and intimacy--but not marriage...
...things began to change when a school nurse told the McGoeys about a program called MEND (mind, exercise, nutrition, diet), started by Paul Sacher, a dietitian at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Hannah enrolled last September, and by the time the program ended 10 weeks later, she had shed nearly 5 lbs. and grown more than an inch. That wasn't all. Once a shy, clingy child, Hannah, who is now 4 ft. 11 in. tall and weighs 84 lbs., brims with confidence and loves physical activity. "I didn't swim much before," she says...