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...workers' party newspaper. He soon joined the party's fighting unit and saw some action, though he couldn't bring himself to shoot a fascist soldier running from a latrine with his pants down. Standing one day in the trenches built for shorter Spaniards, he was shot through the throat. As he recovered, the Soviets were double-crossing their Republican clients. Bowker reports that a Soviet spy had been tailing the politically unreliable couple for months. Moscow's betrayal of the Spanish revolution turned Orwell against communism and the manipulation of language: "In Spain, in fact, I saw history being...
...tests and appointments. "Any wheezing? How about panting?" Sosenko asks Richard Escherick, 61, during an office visit. In his blunt but friendly style, Sosenko quizzes the man about his nighttime cough. "Is it like this?" he asks, making a hacking sound. "Or like this?"--and he rattles his throat, sounding like a tom turkey. Sitting on a round stool, with his legs crossed, and peering over the top of his reading glasses, Sosenko gives his patients as much time as they need to ask questions and voice concerns. These days, their worries often go beyond what medication to take. When...
...sheet, and the idea of immediately ousting them from the room flashed through my mind. But then I paused, and felt somehow happy for them. For they were there, in our room, doing what they wanted and not really caring what anyone else thought. My voice died in my throat, and a subtle smile stretched across my face as I spun around to go change in the bathroom...
...just so much rather talk about al-Qaeda than how to cook a proper lamb." While she says she occasionally feels like a "blow-up doll," Lawson was never happier to have her food universe than when her husband John Diamond spent four years suffering from throat cancer. (He died in 2001; Lawson's current boyfriend is advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.) This explains, at least in part, her food hedonism. "People should stop demonizing fat," she says through bites of French fry. "Seeing food as something like medicine is a horrible idea. Life's too short...
Piercing the tongue is dangerous enough; splitting it is even more so and has the added disadvantage of being difficult to reverse. The major risks are infection--which can spread to the jaw and throat--and uncontrolled bleeding. You also have to learn to talk all over again. Proponents say it's no different from having a tummy tuck or a face-lift, but even professional piercers are not convinced. Legislators in Illinois are considering a bill that would require tongue splitting to be performed by a medical professional. So far, few doctors or dentists have signed...