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...warfare with the city of Cambridge. Deafening explosions roared under machine gun clatter, while the drone and whine of bombers and the piercing scream of air-raid sirens echoed through the streets. In just under two-and-a-half hours, city forces managed to infiltrate the Advocate stronghold and suppress the uprising, and Cambridge residents were able to return to the quiet safety of their beds...
...warfare with the city of Cambridge. Deafening explosions roared under machine gun clatter, while the drone and whine of bombers and the piercing scream of air-raid sirens echoed through the streets. In just under two-and-a-half hours, city forces managed to infiltrate the Advocate stronghold and suppress the uprising, and Cambridge residents were able to return to the quiet safety of their beds...
...Around my bar mitzvah, I realized for the first time I was gay. Or as I termed it, I had a problem. I spent the next seven years in denial trying to suppress it and to correct it. Eventually, I realized that my original notion, that I cannot be gay and Jewish, was wrong," El-Ad said...
Turkey, which has fought a vicious war to suppress the P.K.K., hoped Ocalan's capture would decapitate the rebellion and finally bring it to an end. But the well-orchestrated reaction among Europe's 850,000 Kurds suggested that their quest for independence is hardly over. Indeed, the arrest and trial of Ocalan (pronounced Oh-ja-lan) could boomerang, uniting fractious Kurds and galvanizing global sympathy for their cause. For now, though, many Turks are too busy celebrating...
...drug combination Fen-Phen were dashed by revelations that they can cause heart valve damage. But a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that orlistat has no such life-threatening side effects. Where Redux and Fen-Phen worked in the brain to suppress appetite, orlistat, made by Hoffman-La Roche, blocks the absorption of some fat in the intestines...