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They're all persuasive messages, but they tend to drown each other out, especially now that the Administration is spending most of its time batting down wild rumors about death panels, enemies lists, socialized medicine and government takeovers of bank accounts. And only one of those reasons really explains why Obama has made health-care reform - or health-insurance reform, as he's now calling it - his overwhelming priority at a time when the economy still stinks and fossil fuels are still destroying the planet. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...helicopters began circling overhead, it looked as if the reformist rebellion was over. But then the choppers landed, and out came airmen waving white flags and giving the L sign for laban (fight), a symbol of the opposition. The crowd, realizing that the air force was now defecting, went wild...
...stranded tourists strolled off the roadway and into the lodgepole pine forest, now lush with colorful alpine wildflowers amid the new trees and burned logs from the great wildfires of 1988. Purple-petaled wild daisies sprang from flat, dried buffalo chips along the same route used by Chief Joseph's Nez Perce Tribe at this time in 1877 as they made their 1,800-mile running battle with the U.S. Army trying to reach asylum in Canada. Now, the Commander-in-Chief was flying over the same ground, seeing some of the same natural wonders, but traveling rapidly above...
...piety to wear the hijood - its slick ninja-esque style might be too assertively Muslim for some - the relative ease of sweating or swimming in something other than heavy cotton is pretty unbeatable. In certain situations, even the burqini might prove indispensable. A decade ago, when I regularly frequented Wild Wadi, Dubai's vast water park, mothers in sopping-wet clothes gamely accompanied their children down spiraling slides and endless rivers. They must have been miserable to no end, but they put up with it rather than refuse their kids the thrill of water rides. For pious moms on beach...
...aircraft collisions. And that's not only bad news for the birds. Countries where vultures are most threatened, such as Nepal, India and Pakistan, rely heavily on vultures for a kind of natural maid service: as they clear out dead animals, the risk of disease is also reduced. Dangerous wild-dog packs that feed on dead livestock have also flourished without competition from the birds, says Todd Katzner of Pittsburgh's National Aviary, leading to a new surge of rabies, particularly in Mumbai. "People don't realize what a key role vultures play in the ecosystem," says Aversa. "[They] prevent...