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...wrong way, as many essential services are being cut while the federal budget deficit balloons. The Administration's neocon advisers, who dominate domestic and foreign policy, want to build an American empire without asking citizens to support it with more revenue. The White House plans to achieve it with smoke and mirrors. This is the beginning of the collapse of the Bush Administration's house of cards. The President is overdrawn. Bill Mittlefehldt Anoka...
...square is home to a loud, colorful marketplace. Locals shop for herbs and fruit, while the snake charmer's pipes and the fortune-teller's call compete for the almighty tourist dollar. By night, though, the square is transformed into a smorgasbord of street food. A cloud of smoke hangs over endless rows of food stalls, each one grilling, boiling, frying or steaming some tasty morsel. Chefs in white aprons scoop, slice and serve like doctors trying to cure world hunger, one bowl of couscous at a time...
...could walk by University Lutheran Homeless Shelter without ever noticing it, unless you stopped to wonder who was taking a smoke break outside the church basement near midnight. From November to April, the country’s only student-run homeless shelter welcomes guests in from the cold to occupy a limited number of beds. I’m joining the overnight volunteers, who arrive at 11 p.m. and take turns sleeping ’til it’s time to make breakfast...
Charles R. Amisial, the weekend guard at the shelter, calls the last smoke break...
...best treatment of all, of course, is to prevent strokes from happening in the first place. The steps doctors recommend are pretty straightforward. If you have high blood pressure, reduce it. If your cholesterol level is high, lower it. If you smoke, stop. If you drink, do it moderately. If you're overweight, reduce. And if you are sedentary, exercise...