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...coast to the drop zone described as Utah Beach. Someone asked if we could expect much fighter opposition over the target. The colonel answered that one very simply by saying, "There will be approximately 3,500 Allied fighters over the beach this morning." That brought a big sigh of relief from the group...
...actually a relief for me when the invasion finally happened. I was having trouble keeping my crews in a state of readiness. I knew it was coming off when a young man from the chateau where we were staying brought me a tract to translate that had been dropped from an Allied plane. It ordered him and his family to get out of the chateau into the surrounding fields because they were going to start bombing it. I told him instead to take all the civilians to the deepest cellar, where they'd have a better chance of surviving. That...
...firmly attest to the mystifying ways of the adolescent mind. The child you have loved and nurtured for years suddenly morphs into an exasperating stranger! Research showing that teens' brains are not fully developed, mature organs but continue to undergo structural changes up to age 25 is truly a relief for those of us who have agonized over a teenager's predilection for risk taking, impulsive behavior and overriding lack of good judgment. This research frees us to be patient rather than react with frustration and to understand that we must remain involved while teenagers grow into adulthood, offering them...
...Survivors were few. "My family is gone and my house is gone too," said 40-year-old Rosin Madombe, whose two small children drowned before she could get them out of her now-submerged house. "What am I supposed to do?" With hurricane season only a few months off, relief organizations rushed to assist the poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because the roads are destroyed." A minor earthquake that struck late Saturday caused little...
...layer many women find on their hips, thighs and derriere. (Men tend not to suffer from this perceived problem because their thicker skin does a better job of covering fat.) Women have resorted to surgery, massage, potions, pills and creams to smooth their skin, resulting in temporary relief at best. So can clothing succeed where more extreme efforts have failed...