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...Palace says that allegations that three of Arroyo's relatives, including her husband Miguel, received money from an illegal gambling racket are just another part of the plot. Last Thursday, Sandra Cam, a 45-year-old former provincial official, told a Senate investigating panel that she delivered tens of thousands of dollars in cash to the President's son, Juan Miguel, and her husband's brother, Ignacio Arroyo. (Both men, along with Arroyo's husband, have denied getting payoffs from the so-called jueteng numbers rackets.) Arroyo responded swiftly, ordering an investigation by the Justice Department...
...days of glory in the field when I was a boy among giants. My uncle lifted me up and put me on the seat so I could ride alongside him. The harness jingled on Brownie and Pete and Queenie and Scout, and we bumped along in the racket, row by row. Now all the giants are gone; everybody's about my size or smaller. Few people could lift me up, and 1 don't know that I'm even interested. It's sad to be so old." He is only 43, but he can work himself up to feeling...
...with the little bar magnets that arthritis sufferers sometimes wrap around their wrists or attach to their backs. Instead rTMS relies on sophisticated electromagnets similar to the ones used in MRI scanners, but these are small enough to hold in your hand and don't make all that racket...
...York City residents make about 41,000 calls to 311 every day. The largest complaint? Noise. That may not seem surprising for big-city life, but what 311 revealed was that the biggest racket came from construction sites and barking dogs--not bars and restaurants, as neighborhood groups had always led the city to believe. "311 democratizes the system," says Charles Sturcken of the city's department of environmental protection, which monitors 18 categories of noise. One result is a new noise-control bill making its way through the city council that would rework regulations on everything from car alarms...
...Braden has a special talent, and it's driving him nuts. Braden, a well-known tennis coach, can tell when a player is about to double-fault before the tennis racket even meets the ball. He doesn't know how; it just comes to him in a flash. One year he watched the tournament at Indian Wells and called 16 out of 17 double faults before they happened. This freaks him out. "What did I see?" Braden wonders. "I would lie in bed thinking, 'How did I do this? I don't know.' It drove me crazy...