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Though the greatest suffering is among the poor, visiting doctors were shocked to see the reduced state of their own, mostly middle-class relatives, who must also scrounge for clean water and make do with rationed flour that is often cut with sawdust. "The children looked thinner," noted Chicago urologist Emil Totonchi, who also judged his brother, a Baghdad physician, to be "clinically depressed." Said Totonchi: "When I looked into the faces of my relatives, I saw there was something major lacking. I didn't see much of life or hope -- just bare existence projected so strongly...
...something changed for Chun in the next 48 hours. About 3 p.m. on May 3, he walked out on a balcony near the university's main entrance, doused himself with paint thinner, ignited himself with a cigarette lighter, and then plunged 15 ft. to the pavement below. Alive, but with burns covering 95% of his body, Chun was rushed to a hospital. Seven hours later, he died...
...their vote against force, he gets to rub in the fact that he chose right on the biggest foreign-policy issue of the past decade. When asked last week, Gore went so far as to say he was "actively thinking about" running. Other "go" signals: he looks 20 lbs. thinner, and he has $1 million left over from his 1990 Senate campaign...
Oprah, who was fat when you met her and thinner when you left, is fat once more, and swears that she will never diet again. Donald Trump used to be rich, but his emirate is currently under siege by creditors...
...bureaucratic layer after layer" which Rappaport condemns is actually thinner than it should be, Merkowitz said, especially in the area of student loans, a main aspect of the Education Department's activity...