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...prescription was dated 2001. At that time, he would have been at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., where he was studying medicine tuition-free, a benefit of his enlistment in the Army. The prescription, as a photograph shows, appears to have been filled by Wilford Hall Medical Center at the U.S. Air Force Base in Lackland, Texas. (See pictures of Nidal Malik Hasan's life...
...Disabled volleyball might sound like a charitable exhibition sport, but don't be fooled, says Neil Wilford, a British adviser to the Cambodian league. When an Australian Navy ship docked two years ago at the southern port of Sihanoukville, its volleyball team agreed to a friendly game against a local disabled squad. Before it started, one of the Australians took Wilford aside and asked how easy they should go on their opponents. "Just play as normal," Wilford smirked. The Cambodians trounced the Australians, spiking ball after ball past the red-faced servicemen. The game has since become an annual fixture...
...What is your response to people that love your movies but can't stand the way you articulate your political views? -Wilford Davies, Buffalo NY I don?t know. I don?t know what that means. When you are in my position... my political views are not farther left or that different than many Americans at this time. The answer is: tough. They can like their political views and I have the right to like mine. I feel very strongly about my views and I thought they came in rather handy when Ford was running against Carter. It really...
...Gary Gilmore, whose 1977 execution rang in the modern capital-punishment era, was a volunteer. So was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the first federal prisoner executed since 1963. Death-row inmates often recognize what's at stake. In Ohio in 1997, rioting death-row inmates attempted to kill Wilford Lee Berry Jr., who was trying to become the first Ohioan executed in more than 30 years. Berry survived the beating and was put to death in 1999. Since then, 15 other Ohio inmates have been executed...
Snoring is a drag, especially for anyone within earshot. But what can you do? To find out, researchers at Wilford Hall U.S.A.F. Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, recruited 40 volunteers and tested three over-the-counter remedies: Snorenz (a lubricating spray), Breathe Right Strips (to enlarge nostrils) and the Snore-No-More (an ergonomic pillow). None of them worked...