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...though the Iraqi government had died in its sleep. Baath Party enforcers were nowhere to be found on the street corners that morning. Official minders did not turn up as usual to chaperone foreign journalists. State TV went off the air, and for the first time since the war began, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf did not appear to make his extraterrestrial pronouncements of impending victory. Iraqi military uniforms and weapons were lying in ditches, artillery pieces abandoned under bridges. CIA eavesdroppers monitoring official communications heard ... nothing--no orders being given, no commands to move Iraqi forces...
...mullahs can sleep relatively easily, their proteges in Hizballah should not. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage--considered a dove in this Administration--last year showed his talons. "Hizballah," he said, "may be the A Team of terrorists. They're on the list, and their time will come. There is no question about it." A senior Republican foreign-policy analyst says a possible attack on Hizballah's camps is "not too big to swallow...
...your vision while you sleep. That's the promise of a new contact lens made by Paragon Vision Sciences of Mesa, Ariz. The firm's Corneal Refractive Therapy lens is worn overnight to flatten the top layer of the cornea. In the morning the contact comes out, and the wearer has normal vision for one to three days, until the cornea gradually reverts to its normal shape. Similar contacts have been around for decades, but these are the first approved by the FDA for wear during sleep. They are especially attractive to athletes and those who find daytime lenses uncomfortable...
...least once a week and my parents occasionally taught Sunday school. My religious education began with my dad reading Bible verses to me as soon as he knew I was within my mother’s womb and has never stopped. While children from other families went to sleep to fairy tales and the like, the days of my three siblings and I ended with stories from the Bible or from the biographies of famous Christians—Louis Pasteur, Isaac Newton, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther and others...
...diplomats can influence the temporary U.S. administrators and the new Iraqi government without exercising coercive control. If our European detractors are worried only because of their fear that the United States will not secure human rights and democracy in Iraq, then such a U.N. watchdog role should let them sleep well. And just as Bosnia and Kosovo are now home to U.N. administrators, there will someday be a place in Iraq for the U.N. (if the soon-to-debut government of Iraq approves it) when the political climate grows less shrill...