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...healthy and overflowing WASP culture” and calls for all men to buy stockings at the Andover Shop—“a delightful island of elegance in a sea of slovenliness.” At the same time, the back page, the trademark section of the paper, has been downgraded to a perpetual [enter anti-queer here] page where intelligence and logic fall victim to an endless desire to prove that somehow, people of different sexualities simply deserve ridicule. Of the seven issues from this past year, six of the Salient back pages contain some sort...
...formed, only smiling briefly to each other when former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly was nominated to join the new administration. Brian Keenan, Bobby Storey and Brian Gillen were once denounced as IRA terrorists by Peter Robinson, another member of the new government; now they sat in the VIP section of the viewing gallery, well within reach of a British prime minister who would once have been considered the ultimate IRA target...
...migraine patients. Others wonder wheth-er there is some kind of migraine generator buried deep within the brain stem. Even when researchers think they know the order in which different parts of the brain turn on during an attack, they can't always be sure if one section is initiating an action or anticipating the need to respond...
Each time a migraine occurs, Welch and others have found, the periaqueductal gray matter fills with oxygen, which triggers chemical reactions that deposit iron in that section of the brain. As the iron builds up, the brain's ability to block out pain decreases. That may explain why many migraineurs become more sensitive to pain with each episode...
...radio operators must be licensed through the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), which offers exams that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The exam used to include both a multiple choice section and a Morse code test, but this December, the FCC scrubbed the dots and dashes from the exam. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...