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Copple suffered a “subluxation” or partial dislocation of his left shoulder, in which the humerus slips out of the shoulder socket...
...Budget surpluses, during a time of buoyant revenues, Costello could have retired more debt and spent more on public investment that will sustain future growth - in infrastructure and human capital. Indeed, these surpluses have been slight exercises in prudence in an era of prosperity. Asset sales, such as the partial float of Telstra, have helped create the illusion of fiscal frugality. Other than two hard years of spending cuts to rein in Labor's excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years...
...grounds for jihadists. Pakistani President Musharraf's decision to back the Bush Administration's war on terrorism has won him kudos abroad but none at home. In the past nine months he has survived three assassination attempts mounted by militants tied to al-Qaeda. Conservative religious parties have gained partial control of two provinces, the Northwest Frontier and Baluchistan, to which many Taliban and al-Qaeda fled from Afghanistan. The U.S. and other international donors have pumped millions of dollars into the Pakistani education system in an effort to draw students away from Saudi-funded fundamentalist madrasahs, or religious schools...
Some fans are partial to the passive, assisted stretching, which makes it easier for them to attain certain yoga positions. "It gives you more flexibility," says Dr. Martha Barnette, a plastic surgeon and founder-owner of Mandala Med-Spa. "It is often very hard for people to loosen stiffened joints on their...
...computer discs recovered in Pakistan provide evidence that al-Qaeda has conducted extensive surveillance of U.S. targets. Surveillance reports found on the computers contain some 500 photographs of targeted buildings and discussions about how to hit them. A senior U.S. law-enforcement official gave TIME's Adam Zagorin a partial inventory of the material, including descriptions of potential attacks in the terrorists' words...