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October 1, 1973: War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles rage along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights...
With the euphoniously named diet-drug combo fen/phen all the rage in the mid-1990s, victory finally seemed near in the war on fat. Selling by the millions, the little pills appeared to melt away pounds without maddening diets, demanding exercise or nasty side effects. But as investigative reporter Alicia Mundy reminds us in her absorbing postmortem, Dispensing with the Truth (St. Martin's Press; 402 pages; $24.95), what began as a panacea for intractable obesity--and a bonanza for the pillmakers--quickly turned into a public health disaster...
...January 8, 1951 the Crimson published a picture titled "First Snow Stirs Snowballing," showing Alice Nelson `51 hurling a snowball with an expression of rage on her face...
Left to their own devices, Israelis and Palestinians appear to be unable to end the violence that continues to rage in the West Bank and Gaza. Which means that as long as the U.S. resists playing the thankless - and ill-starred - role of referee, there are slim grounds for optimism over the prospects for a cease-fire, let alone a peace agreement...
Last October's bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden that killed 17 U.S. Navy personnel was a reminder that bin Laden's networks are far from inactive. And the anti-American rage inflamed throughout the Arab world by the Palestinian intifada suggests his pool of potential recruits will grow no matter how harsh the punishment meted out by a New York jury to the four men convicted of the East Africa embassy bombings...