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Chapped, dry hands and rough, patchy elbows are two signs that you're not as young as you used to be. But most of us don't think much about how aging--not to mention the desiccating effects of wintry winds and overheating--also dries out the thin film of tears that bathes and protects our eyes. For 10 million Americans, the problem is bad enough that they suffer from something called dry-eye syndrome. Their eyes become dry and itchy or, at the other extreme, produce excessive quantities of tears. Their vision may get blurry, or they may find...
...residence in the Baluchistan desert on Jan. 2, her assailants may well have expected her to be too ashamed to speak about it. They were wrong. In Pakistan's Baluchistan province, nothing is held in higher regard than a woman's honor, and the allegations of rape have the rough-and-tumble province, rich with natural gas fields, up in arms?literally. Baluch tribesmen have attacked a refinery and pumping station at the Sui gas fields, have sabotaged the pipeline that sends the natural gas to the rest of Pakistan, have blown up railway lines, and have rocketed the provincial...
...post-9/11 era, one potential security threat has emerged as a particular focus of concern: vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, or VBIEDs, possibly disguised as limousines. The fears were prompted in part, say U.S. intelligence sources, by a 39-page document seized from al-Qaeda last year, titled "Rough Presentation for Gas Limo Project." It lays out a scenario for using limousines to deliver bombs equipped with cylinders of a flammable gas. Though the Inauguration is not specifically mentioned, parts of the document began circulating among senior U.S. intelligence authorities on Jan. 5. In response, barriers have been...
Women aren't the only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts...
...headline was pretty rough and the article itself was pretty unfair,” Corker said. “Hahvahdparties.com is a funny site but it doesn’t have much to do with what I do now, but The Herald didn’t make that distinction...