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...testimony last week before the United States Senate, the U.S. Special Envoy for Darfur, General Scott Gration, said he no longer believes genocide is taking place in Darfur. Do you feel vindicated...
...doing so. The government has entered new peace talks on Darfur and in June announced that it would allow nongovernmental organizations back into the region following a three-month ban. At the same time, Washington has relaxed a few of its positions on Sudan. Special envoy Scott Gration recently told Congress that there was no evidence to support the U.S. designation that Sudan is a state sponsor of terrorism. Gration has also said that the situation in Darfur is no longer a genocide but only the "remnants" of one. (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...
...favorite patterns that I think you can see in the Arctic explorers in the 1800s and early 1900s was a very dignified approach to everything they did, even in dying. They were oftentimes amazingly collected in the notes they left behind in their journals. [Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon] Scott is one of the better examples of that. On his return from the South Pole, he was only 15 miles or so from a supply dump that would have saved his life and the lives of his two remaining companions at that time. And they just couldn't do it. They...
...sometimes called paradoxical undressing. As people are becoming very cold and their muscles are failing, there seems to be this feeling that they can't breathe anymore. So they start tearing off clothes. It doesn't happen in every case, and certainly didn't seem to happen to Scott. It seems to be more prevalent with people who are freezing to death very quickly - say, a mountaineer who's lost. He still has plenty of food, but it's so cold that his body can't change the food into glycogen long enough to keep him warm and functional. Eventually...
...lien - a $75,000 home-equity loan - owned by a different division of Wells. The buyer got spooked and walked. The Lupos have since moved into a rental house and now live in fear of the bank coming after them. "It's humiliating when you work so hard," says Scott. "But one day, we'll get back to where we were...