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...will be able to confirm that relations between our countries are growing by the day," Mandela writes. "These relations make it possible for us to create more resources to meet our people's basic needs: jobs, skills and schooling; a roof over their heads, healthcare...
...previous events can be any indication, expect under-cover agents wandering through the crowds, and observer (and possibly sniper) teams on nearby roof-tops...
...long event if you don't plan it right--you have to confirm you know someone at the return address and that you were expecting a package. One doubtful look and your package may be whisked away to be opened by professionals, in a shrapnel-proof roof...
Anyone trying to recover in the wake of last week's visit by Hurricane Bonnie probably isn't feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn't the first thing you think of when your living room is full of mud, your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on end. But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this magnitude, residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia got off remarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property damage was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained largely intact...
...Take the case of the 25-year-old woman from Cheltenham, England, who developed a near fatal infection four days after her tongue was pierced. Most tongues swell--often as much as double their normal size--when they're punctured; hers grew so fat it became trapped against the roof of her mouth and pushed her epiglottis, a flap of tissue that keeps food from entering the lungs, against the back of her throat, cutting off her air supply. When antibiotics failed to reverse the swelling, oral surgeons had to force a tube through her nose and down her throat...