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Around the time that the forlorn gold star mother Cindy Sheehan began her vigil outside the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, I had dinner with a military officer who had commanded a battalion in Iraq...
...Lonely Vigil, a book about Coastwatchers in the Solomons, historian Walter Lord describes how men - from plantation managers to accountants, gold miners to publicans - secreted themselves in the jungle and on mountaintops to keep an eye on virtually every move the Japanese made along the strategic waterway known as "The Slot," between Bougainville and Guadalcanal. Using long-range teleradios, the Coastwatchers were able to intercept Japanese communications and pass on real-time intelligence about supply runs, troop movements and air raids. As well, working with indigenous people like Gasa, the Coast-watchers charted shorelines, prepared landing beaches, provided guides through...
...This lab, at Seoul National University, which made news earlier this summer when they announced a more efficient way of producing human stem cells using a similar cloning process, works seven days a week, for almost 24 hours a day. By keeping a constant vigil for the hormonal signs of ovulation in their female dogs, the scientists were able to surgically remove the eggs at just the right time...
Jack Burcham survived for only ten days with his implant last April, but, says his wife Jinx, the experience seemed "a long, long terrible nightmare." Margaret Schroeder, enduring the longest bedside vigil of all, has spent months at a time in Louisville, 100 miles from her home. Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital...
Meanwhile, as the civil war lurches into its sixth year, the poor peasants who are its principal victims want nothing more than to be left alone. Said Perquín Resident Adan Vigil when asked whether there were any reasons for the struggle to continue: "There must be, but I don't understand them...