Word: pasts
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...seven or eight -- the number of office visits typically scheduled. The group also suggested curbing some routine procedures, including blood-pressure readings, pelvic examinations and screening for protein in the urine. In addition, women do not need a Pap smear if they have had one within the past year...
...past 20 years, Tibet's exiled leader, Tenzin Gyatso, 54, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. His nonviolent Buddhist philosophy and advocacy of a peaceful approach to determining Tibet's future would seem to make the 14th Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") a natural for the honor. So when the Nobel Committee in Oslo finally named him the winner of the $445,000 cash award last week, the question was not "Why him?" but "Why now?" Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces...
...those measured words came too late for the East Germans who had already opted to make a run for a better life in the West. Last week alone some 8,200 fled, raising the total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at the opportunity without a moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying...
...tracked down Eleni's inquisitor and interviewed him at gunpoint. But Gage did not pull the trigger. "There are times when I wake up at night and want to get back on a plane and kill the son of a bitch," Gage said. A Place for Us overlaps that past and goes on to embrace less heroic lifetimes, mainly the author's and that of his father. Yet each life is gallant for its own reasons. Christos Gatzoyiannis passed through Ellis Island first in 1910, and again in 1938. He headed for Worcester, Mass., where he built a steady vegetable...
...shot 150 tuskers and lived as a professional ivory hunter. Today, at 60, he is the elephant's staunchest protector, leading the desperate war against poachers in Kenya's Tsavo National Park. "They say once an elephant hunter, always an elephant hunter," says Woodley. "But I've spent the past 41 years hunting poachers." The difference, he observes wryly, is that "poachers shoot back...