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...Makes War, Bush Calls for Peace In the middle ages a church was a place of sanctuary. In the Middle East today, one has become a battle scene. After more than 200 Palestinians fled into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, said to be the site of Jesus' birth, Israeli soldiers laid siege for four days, peppering the 1,500-year-old building with bullets and, according to those trapped inside, blowing off the rear door. Elsewhere Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank towns of Hebron, Nablus and Jenin and continued to confine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
...grandfather was 17 when he enlisted with the Marines in 1942. He lied about his age and used a doctored birth certificate in order to prematurely gain the privilege of storming beaches in the South Pacific. By comparison, I cringe to think about the causes for which I have ever falsely extended my age. He would survive his time in the war and go on to lead a successful life that produced, among other things, me. I can only thank him now by hoping that in the world of veritas, there will be a greater appreciation for those who dedicate...
...China, the once self-proclaimed Worker's Paradise, seeing the birth of an independent labor movement? Not if Beijing has any control over the situation. The Communist Party traces the fall of the Soviet Union to Poland's legalization of the Solidarity labor union, and leaders still deride worker movements as "the Polish disease." It was the sudden emergence of China's first independent union in May 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising, that prompted the leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen...
Swift withdrew from the race earlier in the day, saying the campaign would put too much strain on her family commitments. Swift is a mother of three and gave birth to twin daughters last...
Another problem, says Jamie Grifo, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at New York University School of Medicine and president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, is that the only information recorded about these babies was their low birth weight. There was no assessment of their outcome or follow-up through the years...