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...Most damaging, he is alleged to have fast-tracked the visa renewal of the Quinns' former nanny, though the evidence is inconclusive and he strenuously denies it; the matter is now being officially investigated. Last week Quinn was in the hospital, dehydrated and vomiting, having apparently collapsed under the strain of constant publicity...
...TWIST It's amazing the contortions some people will go through to retrieve luggage from the overhead bin on an airplane. Rotating your spine while putting extra pressure on it can lead to muscle or ligament strain if you're lucky?and a herniated disk if you're not. Point your toes in the direction in which your hands are moving, say the experts. Then, when you have lowered your bag, you can turn your whole body to head down the aisle...
Full-scale offensives like Fallujah inevitably exact a psychic toll. Yet the punishing strain of fighting a hydra-headed insurgency afflicts U.S. troops even on what passes for a normal day in Iraq. Sergeant Justin Harding of the Ramadi-based 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, can't get one of those October days out of his head. His squad, Reaper 2 of Whiskey Company, was heading back to base along one of Iraq's most dangerous roads. The squad's convoy, towing a vehicle disabled by a roadside bomb, was running at slow speed, making it vulnerable to ambush. Sure enough...
...Rheo Knee. The new prosthetic joint, developed in Iceland, is designed to learn the nuances of an individual's movements and adjust itself. An innovative control module--made up of sensors, a computer chip and software--reacts instantaneously to changes in the wearer's gait, so there's less strain on the hips and back...
...booby-trapped bodies are hardly new. U.S. soldiers encountered them in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War and Afghanistan. The strain of this war may be unimaginable to civilians Stateside, but it is nevertheless what the troops are trained to manage. And they know that under the Pentagon's Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva convention, a soldier who shoots an unarmed, wounded combatant can be found guilty of murder...