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...Hammadi pressed his thumb and fingers to his eyes and turned away, trying to push the tears back inside. But then he pulled himself together and turned to me. "We are with Hizballah, even if everybody dies," he said. "God forbid...
CHARLESTON, S.C.—I didn’t approach hitchhiking with an eye-glistening wanderlust or a throat-swelling love of life. I stuck my thumb out impudently, like a child forced to apologize, then made my boyfriend do the same. We had bought tickets to a concert without realizing the show was a 40-minute drive north of the city. We don’t have a car, and we need a ride. Otherwise, the $30 tickets go to waste. The only impulse more natural to me than looking out for myself is looking...
...play the saxophone and had to learn the trumpet, and I took a lot of crap from my schoolmates." There was a long-term political benefit, however: Tester, who is the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana, has the most distinctive hand wave in American politics, a thumb-and-pinkie hook-'em-horns waggle. Indeed, Tester's physical presence-he's a big old farm boy with a flattop crew cut-is a political statement that stands close to the heart of the national Democratic congressional campaign of 2006. It says, I'm not a slick Washington...
...when no one really wanted much from the federal government except favorable tax treatment for our 401(k)s, Clinton would stand before Congress and the TV cameras, he would work his jaw and narrow his eyes, and he would tell the nation with a vigorous thrust of the thumb that the nation faces a "challenge as great as any in our peacetime history". Then, rising to the challenge, he would announce a new initiative to expand family leave...
...DeQuervains is the most common cause of pain on the thumb-side of the wrist. It's a tendon irritation caused by friction. If it continues to be a 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...