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TIME Is this the final spasm of a dying movement, or do you think it will cause lasting trouble...
...What's more, when a court order lifted the ban half a year later, the heart-attack rate bounced right back. Dr. Robert Shepard, who wrote the Helena study, offers this explanation: "There is laboratory evidence that secondhand smoke makes platelets stickier, causing clots and sending arteries into spasm--both of which can lead to heart attacks." The chemical reaction and the resulting damage occur quickly...
Among the many questions that remain unanswered is whether the horror in Fallujah represented an isolated spasm of mob violence or a more corrosive, widespread streak of anti-American hatred. On Saturday, Shi'ite followers of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr marched and burned American flags, promising if asked to be the hand of Hamas and Hizballah in Iraq. But galling as the images in Fallujah were, U.S. commanders say the city and the surrounding area remain a uniquely difficult problem, with little bearing on what's happening in the rest of the country. The military continues to believe that...
That strategy was foreshadowed by the multiple attacks on Iraqi Shi'ites a few weeks ago. The terrorists hoped to set off civil war among the Shi'ites, Kurds and Sunnis. The good news is that the Shi'ites did not choose to launch a spasm of counterviolence but instead signed the draft interim Iraqi constitution. In other words, the strategy of Terror International does not seem to be achieving its desired effect where it matters most--in Iraq. Nor should its strategy be allowed to bear fruit in the rest of the democratic world. The terrorists don't want...
...floor, thinks about his family and friends in Mogadishu, and prepares to die. When Abdi Salan's boat was discovered on Oct. 19, after 15 days at sea, with 13 corpses and 15 survivors aboard and an unknown number lost along the way, the story threw Italy into a spasm of soul-searching. The mayor of Rome organized a funeral at the capital's historic city hall, where 13 coffins were draped in the blue-and-white Somali flag. But until now, the full story of this journey has not been told. Just about every night, one or more boats...