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...Larry the Cable Guy character has become considerably less political since Whitney created him on the radio as a kind of southern Archie Bunker in the early '90s. "You want the biggest fan base you can get," says Whitney. "There's a lot of comics who just like to make their friends laugh. Audiences like seeing a comedian who doesn't talk to the back of the room. He talks to the front of the room...
...flow of blood to the brain. He theorized that the suddenly bulging blood vessels put pressure on nearby nerves and that these in turn trigger the pain. A variation on Willis' idea became the favored explanation for the cause of migraines. (An important network of blood vessels at the base of the brain bears Willis' name...
...past, W1AF and other Boston area ham radio clubs have set up battery or solar powered stations on islands in Boston Harbor and forests outside the city during their field days. Participants are charged with contacting certain base stations without the help of modern conveniences such as the power grid...
...will also appreciate the more muscular stance against Iran's nuclear program advocated by Sarkozy, including possible bilateral sanctions that Chirac had excluded in favor of a collective United Nations approach. "The upside of Sarkozy having no unified international agenda is he can remain pragmatic and flexible - base decisions on practicality rather than deep principle," Reynié says. "The downside is his domestic economic program does the same by favoring reform and market forces, but reserving the right to intervention and state leadership when necessary. That approach lets you weave through conflict, but it can also cause confusion, or even chaos...
Ncube: Mugabe is extremely power conscious. He's obsessed. Anything that disturbs his power base, he immediately reacts. In the 1980s, he sent the [North-Korean trained Zimbabwean Army] Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland to kill 20,000 people. It was crazy. It was his own people. It's absolutely diabolical. Atrocious...