Word: quell
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ASPIRIN ALERT Most folks who routinely take low-dose aspirin to prevent a second heart attack think nothing of downing additional anti-inflammatories to quell their arthritis pain. Not a good idea. Scientists have discovered that ibuprofen, sold under the brand names Advil and Motrin, may interfere with aspirin's ability to protect the heart. What's left? Tylenol (in low doses) and prescription anti-inflammatories Voltaren and Vioxx don't mess with aspirin...
...think it would be easy to put a frail, 65-year-old quadriplegic under house arrest. But it's never been harder to quell the activists of Hamas. When armed police from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel...
...with the little genkan and the slippers neatly lined up on the veneered floor. And what kind of dream is that? Even the head teacher of the junior high can't hide the fact the students are wild: "There are always instances of bullying. We try our best to quell them on school grounds, but once class is out, there's nothing we can do." Ah nods her head, stands up from the bench and says she thinks Kayoko has had a great idea. Ah's mom died when she was in third grade, and her older sister ran away...
...took three days of fighting by Northern Alliance soldiers, backed by U.S. special forces and British SAS troops and American warplanes to quell the uprising. A number of Northern Alliance troops were killed, and five Americans were wounded by a stray bomb dropped by a U.S. plane. Western officials say that as ugly as the bloodbath may have been, the Taliban prisoners brought it upon themselves by putting their captors in mortal danger. But the U.N.'s Robinson and the Red Cross want to examine whether the military response to the revolt was "proportionate" to the threat it represented. Such...
...Northern Alliance. But on Sunday, the prisoners decided to rebel, grabbing weapons from an armory at the local fort. At least two Americans were trapped in the fort when it happened and at least one is dead. American and British forces have now joined in trying to quell the attack. Perry is on the scene and provided these details via satellite phone to TIME Newsdesk editor John Flowers as the fighting raged...