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...Zubaydah is very helpful in making it more difficult for them to successfully reorganize," said Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time. "Al-Qaeda has many tentacles but one of them was cut off." But Suskind reports that the CIA learned that Zubaydah had suffered a head wound during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In fact, in a diary captured by the CIA, he wrote as if he were three different people. In reality, Suskind reports, he actually was merely a low-level al-Qaeda drone, "like the guy you call who handles the company health plan...
...Senate Democrats wound up with two positions. Kerry and Feingold are introducing an amendment that would call for withdrawal of all combat troops by this time next year. The other camp is coalescing around a Levin-Reed amendment that calls for starting a "phased redeployment" this year that will continue at a pace set by the commanders on the ground...
Even when that happens, it doesn't necessarily signal an emergency. The skin, after all, is an effective barrier against many kinds of threats. But anytime you get a break in that barrier--even a tiny cut--there's a chance some bacteria will get inside and infect the wound. What makes MRSA germs particularly dangerous is that they excrete a potent toxin that attacks the skin, causing an abscess that's often mistaken for a spider bite. Normally, the body can wall that area off. But if the infection spreads, treatment with antibiotics may be called...
...multi-family unit; Hannah's next-branch neighbors are professional tree-protectors John Quigley and Julia "Butterfly" Hill, and - for one night - Joan Baez. In Los Angeles, you really can shake a tree and a celebrity falls out. Hill, who is in the midst of a hunger strike that wound up lasting 26 days, encourages me as I ascend. "So often in our lives fear holds us back," Hill yells down at me, smiling. "And most of us miss out on the magic of life because of that one little word." I wonder if by week three, Gandhi was this...
...about p.r., fund raising and direct mail; aspiring young pols get "candidate development" training. In its 25 years, according to Blackwell, the institute has trained some 40,000 conservatives--the movement's field army--including nearly 200 who went on to become state legislators and more than 300 who wound up as staff members on Capitol Hill...