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...officer and first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, completely lost his home when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. That December, the Federal Emergency and Management Agency (FEMA) gave Stewart and his wife a trailer to live in. The first night they slept in it, she woke up with blood coming out of her nose. Then he started developing troubling respiratory symptoms - burning eyes, coughing, a constantly scratchy throat. One morning, they awoke to find CiCi, their pet cockatiel, half-dead. All the symptoms pointed to formaldehyde poisoning...
...diagnosed with viral pericarditis [an inflammation of the heart tissue]. One day I was in the gym, the next day in intensive care. When I was 50, my doctor suggested that I get a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. So I went, and when I woke up I found out that a big part of my colon and I were soon to be parted. I was just floored. I had no symptoms, and no reason to believe anything was wrong with me. How could this happen again...
...reporter who most likely will not be there to cover a possible Shalit release is Johnston, who plans on taking a much deserved "break" from Gaza. Says Johnston: "I literally dreamt many times of being free and always woke up back in that room. And now it really is over, and it really is indescribably good...
...thinking: even if only 20 or 30 people are arrested, I would be among them. So I tried to prepare myself psychologically. I pondered what books I would take to read in prison. I thought that I could accept the reality of the situation. But when I woke up in the middle of the night, I was covered in cold sweat. Then I realized how scared...
...scale and pace of this transformation is neatly illustrated by the marvelous “Goodbye Lenin” story of Jan Grzebski, who woke up from a 19-year coma four days ago. When the former Polish railway worker suffered his horrific accident in 1988, millions of people languished behind the Iron Curtain, Americans practiced nuclear shelter drills, and students had to navigate the Dewey decimal system—a life unimaginable today. In Jan’s words, “When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat...