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...Trade can be slow, and a gaggle of bored shopkeepers sit around a table sipping tea as a couple of college-aged students browse for gifts for their professors. Most customers buy fossils for others, as gifts or bribes. After an initial rush, shopkeepers say, demand has leveled out, although their stores remain open. "It's normal to go a month or two without a sale, because there are so many other shops," says one dealer. But she didn't seem worried, explaining that selling just the occasional $300 petrified tree stump or $600 marine lizard will keep her business...
...Such lectures don't sit well with Maliki, who lashed out on Sunday at Clinton and Levin. He said they seem to "consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages," and told them to "come to their senses...
...progress that couldn't come at a better time. There are currently about 1.9 million amputees living in the U.S., a figure expected to jump to 2.7 million by 2020--mainly because of returning Iraq war veterans and patients who lose limbs to diabetes-related complications. "We can't sit back and let helpless animals fend for themselves," says Dr. Erick Egger, associate professor of small-animal orthopedic surgery at Colorado State University. "We need to help them, and more important, we need to help people...
...with reports that the terrorism threat has increased since we've been "going on offense," Giuliani dismisses those findings and points to the lack of an attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 as evidence of our safety. Sometimes," he says, "we miss the forest for the trees when we sit in places and just analyze...
...crisp, fall Sunday afternoon. The weekend's chores are done and Monday morning is still hours away. You settle into the sofa, click the remote, and sit back to enjoy an NFL match on one of the major networks. But instead of three hours of gridiron bliss, you get a second-rate 1950s musical. While for American football fans this scenario is, these days, just a Heidi Bowl nightmare, for bullfighting aficionados across Spain it's suddenly a bad dream coming true. This summer, for the first time in its 51-year history, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation...