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...would like is for the U.S. to say, 'We don't give a shit about you. We are the lion in the jungle, and we are eating you because we are more powerful.' Fine. But all this talk of goodness and liberation and 'We love you' makes me sick." After two months fighting for a visa, Satrapi arrived at JFK Airport in New York on May 14. For an hour and a half she was interrogated, fingerprinted and, she says, talked down to by customs officials. Afterward, in the corridor of the airport, drained and shaken, she did something...
...been infected with BSE. Food inspectors fear parts of the contaminated cow may have been inadvertently served to other cattle as feed, infecting them and potentially any beef eaters who consumed them. Inspectors quarantined 13 sites across Canada as they investigate where - and how - the Black Angus got sick. MEANWHILE IN COLOMBIA ... Livin' La Vida Loca Forty soldiers were arrested after stealing $9 million in drug money they found in the jungle. Military officials became suspicious when the soldiers (who earn about $175 per month) went on shopping sprees, buying new cars and TVs, and showered money on prostitutes. Authorities...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was half right when he warned that we have to fear fear itself. As Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University and others have found, stress is bad for human health. Chronic stress suppresses the immune system. Worry too much about getting sick, and you’re more likely to get sick, or sicker, from any infectious disease. Stress also impairs memory and learning, increases the risk of Type II diabetes, and accelerates osteoporosis...
...makes you feel safer, but the risk is higher when a gun is around than when it isn’t. Take an antibiotic you don’t need and the germs can mutate so the next time you take it, when you’re actually sick, it won’t work...
...female" professions tend to offer more flexible hours. Ron Patrizio, 43, a biotech-firm sales rep in Central Florida, got sick of his old routine. He spent much of his time wining and dining doctors, hoping they would prescribe his firm's drugs. He made as much as $67,000 a year, and constantly accompanied clients to operas and hockey games. "But you have no life," he says. "You live and die by how many vials of insulin you sell that month. They expected you to schmooze 24-7." On a whim, he took a class in massage therapy...