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...those high-profile attacks come atop the daily drumbeat of hit-and-run attacks on U.S. and allied forces, which continue to kill an American soldier on average every second day, and wound more. Iraqis cooperating with the U.S. have also increasingly become targets for murder. Insurgents interviewed by Western news outlets point to Fallujah as a model achievement they hope to emulate elsewhere - U.S. forces recently pulled out of the Western Iraqi town, leaving local police in charge after an ongoing series of street clashes and ambushes of American troops. The U.S. forces may have acted to defuse...
...here to discuss mystery novels. As we both know, there are ominously looming mountains of them, and you don't want to waste your precious beach reading time with books that are doomed to bore, do you? Here instead are six of this summer's most tightly wound, delicately nuanced and deviously irresistible. Settle in and prepare to enjoy yourself. I'm afraid escape is quite impossible...
...CUTS AND SCRAPES Don't apply an antiseptic like hydrogen peroxide to minor cuts and scrapes; that can actually delay healing. Hydrogen peroxide kills pretty much everything in its path, including any immune cells that your body has rushed to the wound. All that's needed to treat most of these injuries is to wash them gently with soap and water--making sure dirt or any other foreign material is flushed out--and then to cover with a sterile bandage. It's O.K. to use a topical antibiotic ointment like Neosporin the first...
...what he did last week when he disclosed that he had belatedly found two memos from the CIA expressing serious doubts about intelligence claims that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium in Africa. He thus offered himself as the fall guy for the disputed sentence about uranium that wound up in Bush's State of the Union address. "I should have asked that the 16 words be taken out," he told reporters at a hastily called press conference. "I failed in that responsibility...
...unsuspecting public as new in later years by another generation of lawmakers and Presidents. But changing anything as deep-seated as America's habits of energy use calls for consistency and follow through, so the failure of Washington to stick with hardly any of its plans has wound up making the U.S. more dependent than ever on foreign sources...