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...someone who has pledged to die a martyr, Yasser Arafat resists intimations of mortality. A year ago, his doctors told TIME that Arafat might have stomach cancer, but the Palestinian leader refused to leave his besieged compound in Ramallah to seek treatment; if he did, Arafat feared, the Israelis might block him from returning. In recent weeks, as his health deteriorated, Arafat's official spokesmen said it was nothing serious. By early last week, Arafat couldn't keep food down; even the cornflakes he ate on Thursday morning had to be pureed. He was unable to move his legs fully...
...users of the powerful acid-fighting drugs were 89% more likely to develop pneumonia than people who no longer took them. Less potent acid reducers such as Pepcid and Tagamet also raised the risk of pneumonia, by 63%. Doctors say such drugs are so good at knocking out the stomach's germ-killing acids that they make patients--especially the elderly and people with chronic lung illness--more vulnerable to the bugs that cause pneumonia. --By Sora Song
...save the backwards states down south or out west, but the Midwest would prove it could make the difference. Even my father, a self-named “independent” but originally Bush backer, was changing his vote—as a veteran he couldn’t stomach what President Bush did with the war in Iraq...
...ahead, ridicule me. I’m an eternal optimist, the proverbial Pollyanna. And while the deep pit of my stomach was always worried, I saw no point in being unhappy too soon. You might argue—and many have—that this is no way to approach life. I’m sorry, I can’t help it, it’s the way I function. And maybe that’s why I made my section of the country into a new Eden, combining the down-to-earth values of the middle...
...wots, are all mounded atop injera, the traditional flat bread of East African cuisine. More folded-up pieces of injera are nestled alongside the entrees. It’s an astonishing amount of food, and all you can do is wipe off your fingers, say a prayer that your stomach will hold...