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...allergy to milk. Then, at 9 months, he couldn't crawl or sit up. The diagnosis this time was hypotonia, a vague term that basically means "poor muscle tone." With physical therapy, Asher walked at 17 months, but then a month later he caught a cold--and overnight lost half his vocabulary. Nobody could figure out what was going...
...those seeking omens on Saddam Hussein's day of judgment, Mother Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...
...make her lunch vegetables squirt out her nose. She decides "I'll open my heart and reach out to them! Then they'll stop bullying me!" Instead they throw her in the pool and force her to eat octopus (the Japanese word for octopus, tako, sounds like Takako). Overnight she sprouts octopus legs and wreaks hideous revenge by stuffing her tentacles into her rival's mouths and popping their eyeballs out from the inside in wildly grotesque panels...
...course, there are a few things to gripe about. The rear seats have enough leg room for a couple of pint-size 10-year olds. Trunk space is cozy-don't pack more than an overnight bag or two. And VW's lousy reputation for reliability suggests buyers shouldn't expect anything like the build quality of a Lexus (though VW does offer a 50,000-mile warranty to ease one's concerns). For the price, however, this is one model that Veedub can credibly say rocks...
...East Germany in 1953," he said last week, "this was a real revolution. There was no consultation; it just jumped up here and there." Despairing at the brutality of a particularly nasty communist regime, ordinary citizens in Budapest - students, office workers - turned themselves into guerrilla fighters almost literally overnight, learning on the job, as it were, how to lure a Soviet tank down a narrow alley and bomb it with Molotov cocktails. "There was a tremendous euphoria, especially after the Russians agreed to a cease-fire and withdrew to their barracks," says Lessing. "People thought, 'This is going...