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...with Ansar al-Islam, the al-Qaeda-linked group that was based in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq before the U.S. invasion. Mehmet Farac, an expert on Turkey's Muslim militants, says the group may have linked up with al-Qaeda planners over the past year to help it regain ground lost since its leader, Huseyin Velioglu, was killed in a police shoot-out in 2000. "Mutual interest is key to this partnership," says Farac. "Al-Qaeda wants to hit U.S., British and Israeli interests; Hizballah wants to prove it is back." Hizballah's potential involvement could prove embarrassing...
...fact, even if you have plenty of “recovery” sleep across subsequent nights after being deprived of sleep, you still cannot regain the sleep-dependent learning effect. Sleep deprivation, at least in terms of memory consolidation, is not like the bank. You cannot accumulate a debt and hope to pay it off in a lump sum at a later date. It is an all or nothing event, and if you don’t snooze, you lose...
...best circumstances, there are substantial risks. As many as 1 in 100 obese adult patients dies from the procedure. A woman died in Massachusetts last month after the staples in her stomach apparently popped out. Blood clots and serious infections are also possible. In addition, 15% of patients regain the weight they lost. (By eating continually, you can stretch even the tiniest stomach.) In short, says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital, Boston, "you're substituting one potentially life-threatening condition for another...
Desperately trying to regain control of the ball with the clock winding down, Harvard’s defenders pounded Mathews, trying to strip the ball from his grasp...
...public schools, and the crisis in our public schools, is a priority...The lack of confidence in our public schools is alarming. We must work to regain this confidence... Superintendents and principles from all over the world come to the Ed school to learn best practice, how is it that we don’t have best practice here...