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...Fellow practitioner Mas is convinced that Suvarnabhumi's curved sections of roofing should be redesigned because they "look like waves when there shouldn't be water energy in that sector." But he believes the reopening of Don Muang, Thailand's long-serving facility north of the city, can bring relief not just by reducing flight load but because its terminal's rectangular shape makes for better energy collection. It's a proper gateway, in other words. So far, Suvarnabhumi has been more like a creaky door...
Deborah Rodriguez left two sons and a failed marriage behind in Holland, Michigan, when she headed to war-shattered Afghanistan in 2002 with a few weeks of disaster-relief training and a suitcase full of moist towelettes. "I imagined I would spend the month there bandaging wounds, splinting broken limbs, clambering over the rubble, and helping people who were still hiding from the Taliban," she writes. "I didn't have any idea that I'd still be here five years later doing spiral perms and introducing the art of pubic waxing...
Rodriguez was a disaster at disaster relief, but she brought along some tools that proved providential. "I never travel without my scissors," she says in The Kabul Beauty School, her amusing, inspiring account of good intentions gone platinum, with streaks. Rodriguez had worked as a beautician in Michigan, and when word of her skills got out, fellow aid workers besieged her for haircuts. Before long, she realized her real destiny was training Afghanistan's oppressed, burqa-encased women to support themselves as hairdressers...
...Pain relief isn't the only reason to stop a migraine before it goes too far. When the illness goes untreated, there is some evidence "of a mechanism in the central nervous system that makes traditional medications less useful," says Dr. Michael Moskowitz, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. How that resistance develops is the subject of intense investigation...
...attention to his triggers along with judicious use of a powerful painkiller has kept his headaches to a minimum. "It's a tricky thing to navigate a migraine," Schipper says. "You have to be adept at knowing your own patterns." But it can be done. And sometimes, knowing that relief is within reach is half the battle. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/London, Andrea Dorfman/New York, Harlene Ellin/Chicago and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles