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...much as 4% of the population, whose problem is far more serious. They suffer from a controversial and little-recognized syndrome called compulsive binge eating disorder. Sufferers don't merely give in to a couple of cookies. They inhale an entire package or down a whole pizza when a slice or two would do. The episodes are short, intense and replayed over and over...
...line for pizza at Pinocchio’s: It’s a bad thing when you have to stop mid-smooch so that your partner can mumble, “large slice of pepperoni and diet coke with lemon, please...
...more of the heavy lifting itself in the campaign to defeat the Taliban. With Washington having been given the nod by Moscow, U.S. personnel are currently scouting airfields in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, not only as logistical bases for long-term resupply efforts in an expanded Northern Alliance-controlled slice of northern Afghanistan, but also as potential staging areas for a more substantial commitment of U.S. ground troops. The search for new bases also signals the limits on what Washington is able to ask of Pakistan...
...This former army base next to the Bagram airfield 50 km north of Kabul is a tiny slice of Stalingrad, circa 1942. Beyond the gates there's scarcely a building intact?just broken walls, smashed stonework, and ground littered with spent shell casings and twisted metal. Allah Mahmad exaggerates a bit when he says his men are holding the 40th Division base. For the past two years his platoon has been hanging on to about 100 sq m of ground inside the gate. Two small buildings still have roofs and their dark, fetid rooms serve as living quarters. There...
Just this past Saturday, he said, customers desperate for a slice of pizza at about 2:45 a.m. began pounding on the window and yelling...