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...Sharon and the U.S. that he can be as firm with the militants as he was with Arafat. Close aides say Abbas doesn't want to start a civil war, but he's ready to force Hamas to respect the authority of his government. "He's a very patient person," says Rafik Natsha, a Palestinian lawmaker and close friend. "He swallows his anger." He may have to let it out soon. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/ Ramallah, Amany Radwan/Sharm el-Sheikh and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...knew we could compete with them,” junior center Brian Cusworth said. “We were patient, played the game at our pace, and were able to get our rhythm going and get back into the game...
Doctors have identified an AIDS patient in New York City whose immune system crashed within weeks of his initial HIV infection, a process that normally takes years. It's too soon to know if a new strain has surfaced, but doctors are now on the alert for more cases of this aggressive virus. --By David Bjerklie
...thought I was going to die,” he relates. “Then the guy behind me threw open the door, because they can see I was sick. All this air came in, and I just sat down on this stool there. The audience was very patient. They thought I was doing some weird meditation thing, like astroprojection or something...
...feminization of these health concerns. At the hands of cruel irony, it is the men most likely concerned with the “masculine” routine of weight lifting and anabolic steroid popping who frequently succumb to distorted bodily perceptions most often associated with female anorexic or bulimic patient...