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This is called sleep apnea. It happens when your nasal passages or throat gets blocked during sleep and your breathing is badly interrupted. It's often, but not always, correlated with carrying too much weight, and it occurs more in men than in women. Most people who have it have no idea. I sure didn't. But eventually my long-suffering boyfriend insisted I go to a sleep clinic to get myself examined. With all my spluttering and huffing and puffing, he was sometimes alarmed that I might not make it through the night. Sleeping next to all this...
...soldiers seized her wrists and pinned her to the floor. First one man; then the other. Maka shut her eyes and tried to cry out, but her assailants wadded her tobe, the long, colorful shawl worn by Sudanese women, and stuffed it down her throat, choking her. "You are the wife of a rebel," they taunted, and beat her. When it was done they spat and called her a sodomite...
...this juncture, we’re just jumping off the bridge,” Weatherhead said yesterday. “My stomach is in my throat and I’m wondering: what’s the next step? It’s such a sweeping challenge. What ultimately will transpire will be fascinating...
Regardless of the similarities, New Haven does foster a certain anti-Harvard attitude. Countless Yalies, friends and one particularly ferocious Yale tour-guide trying to convince me that Harvard was not fun, cut-throat competitive, very nerdy, snobbishly intellectual and would probably make me suicidal, depressed, bipolar and schizophrenic by the end of first semester...
...Gogh, a great-grandnephew of the artist Vincent van Gogh, had just finished a film about Fortuyn when he was murdered. Amsterdam's public prosecutor says Mohammed B. shot Van Gogh as he cycled to his studio, then slit his throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans...