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...problem despite pills, therapy, splints and shots there is a small and simple surgical procedure that cures it. I do the operation under local anesthesia, and because there's a tourniquet with a timer on during the case I can tell you how long it takes: about ten minutes. She understood the explanation and opted for the surgery. Then we went next door...
...Cartel The address is 17 Charterhouse Street. Ten times every year, near the open-air stalls of Smithfield Market in central London, about 80 of the diamond world's most powerful men meet here. Each client is led into a second-floor room. Coffee and tea are offered. An attendant comes back with what looks like a yellow-and-black plastic lunchbox. Inside are gem diamonds of all varying types and sizes. There are no negotiations over price, only an implied choice: Take it or leave it. These events are called "sights," and the host is De Beers Consolidated Mines...
...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...
...leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, which the U.S. believes is a pseudonym for Egyptian explosives expert Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Despite a large-scale presence of security forces on the streets of Baghdad and a ban on vehicle traffic during prayer time, a suicide bomber Friday killed more than ten people at a Shi'ite mosque...
...Dylan was a ten-year-old who had "squeezing," "tight" headaches "for years." They hurt so bad that his head had to "lie down," especially in the morning and evening, though they usually improved with Tylenol. There were no obvious warning signs: Dylan's grades were average, he had no history of trauma, no recent illnesses, no fever, no runny nose, no vision problems and no difficulty eating - although he was a very picky eater. He had good friendships and there were no stressors at home. And as with Sarah, there was no history of headaches or migraines...