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...punishment: three tires were punctured, the van had to be left and picked up later, a taxi had to be hired in Baghran, a 4x4's belt spring was broken, some electricals failed, two cars collided and one had to be push-started several times. There was also the toll on those who travelled with us; food was poor and in little quantity, the dust was inescapable, sleep was rare and the cold was biting. But in four long days we made it there and back again...
...Venus/ You're King Kong's penis/ You're self-abuse!" In 1948, for a Bob Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks to the fighting Air Force/ That daily took its toll;/ Now it's a humane Air Force/ With heart and soul,/ Dropping wheat and coal." (If Hope were touring today, he could sing the lyric in Afghanistan...
...Climbdown Under pressure to help countries ravaged by AIDS, pharmaceutical companies reversed their insistence that patented drugs be protected - and paid for - and agreed to supply cut-rate antiretroviral medicines in Africa. Poor nations in the region had long said the high cost of the drugs was taking a toll in human lives. Their case was later bolstered when the U.S. and Canada, fearing terrorist anthrax attacks, pressured German giant Bayer to sell Cipro, its anti-anthrax drug, at a steep discount...
Long said he thinks the out of council activities benefits leadership ability on council, even if it takes its toll on the amount of time spent campaigning...
...Palestinian terrorist group Hamas claimed credit for the murders as retaliation for the killing of a senior Hamas leader by the Israeli army. The group also claimed responsibility for a suicide bus bombing in Haifa on Sunday morning that left 15 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll may rise as those who were wounded die of their injuries. The attacks that Israel endured over the weekend were among the most deadly of the latest intifada...