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...visits are steeped. The last time he dined with the Queen--in 1992 at his father's White House, wearing cowboy boots emblazoned with GOD SAVE THE QUEEN--he asked if she had any black sheep in her family. "Don't answer that!" his mother Barbara interjected, trying to avoid embarrassment. This time he's the President, the man in charge. Whatever Bush does, Blair will have to live with it. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington and Helen Gibson/London
...than five or six bites, and you will feel a sense of nausea. Then the doctors rearrange the small intestine, the organ that actually absorbs nutrients, so that about a third of it can no longer function normally. Patients must take supplements for the rest of their life to avoid serious nutritional deficiencies. The procedure can, in theory, be reversed, though doing so would require complex surgery and the lost weight would probably be regained...
...helped him," Chaussoy told Time last week. "I eased his pain, physical and emotional." The local prosecutor says these injections killed Vincent, and doctors are forbidden from deliberately provoking death under the French code of medical ethics. But the code also requires doctors to ease patients' suffering and avoid "foolish obstinacy" in treatment. Chaussoy's supporters say the shots are a customary, humane response to a patient in pain. Chaussoy did not mention the injections in his public statements after Vincent's death. And he confirms that if he'd done nothing, Vincent would have likely emerged from his coma...
...obscurity may have a lot to do the mainstream attention he’s starting to get. In the oft-predictable world of mainstream hip-hop, Aesop is a definite wild card. And while he says he doesn’t force obscurity, he does try to avoid sounding like anyone else, of which he seems quite proud...
...Sunday, it's the fact that the U.S. fixed-wing warplanes have conducted a number of bombing raids over the past week. It's not that the Pentagon believes it can vanquish a near-invisible guerrilla army from the skies - the first rule in the guerrilla manual is avoid concentrating your forces and offering a target to your enemy's air power. No, the object of the latest U.S. air strikes was not necessarily even to kill enemy fighters - the residents of some of the houses that were struck from the air were actually warned to evacuate ahead of time...