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...miles from the office of the new Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy inside the fortified Green Zone. It centers on Haifa Street, a once busy thoroughfare that has become the most feared stretch of Baghdad: a vicious insurgent sanctuary where U.S. and Iraqi government forces cannot tread except to shoot their way in and out. The battle for Haifa Street is illustrative of the wider challenges facing U.S. forces across Iraq, which will remain even if the U.S. manages to quell the uprising in Najaf led by Muqtada al-Sadr. After 17 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still often...
Oldsters in Sardinia, another wellspring of longevity, have many similarities to their Okinawan counterparts--except that the Sardinian ratio of centenarians is about equal for men and women (in most societies, 100-plus females outnumber males by 3 or 4 to 1). They maintain very active lives and powerful social networks; extended family and friends are available to share troubles and take some of the emotional burden out of life. Says researcher Gianni Pes, part of a team from Sardinia's University of Sassari, which is studying the group: "The 100-year-olds are less depressed than average 60-year...
...year-old can be managed rather well. My little girl, thanks to her vigilant mother, does not watch television (except for approved videos) or eat fast food (except when with her aunt) or drink soda pop (ditto) or use foul language. She wears clean clothes and is fed fresh fruit and vegetables and that sort of thing. She is taken to kiddie concerts of classical music and to children's theater. At bedtime, with a little prompting, she bows her head and prays for people. Her teeth are clean and bright. Here I am, an old Democrat...
...like to lose. At anything. You know the saying ?the calm before the storm'? That's him - and there is a storm." It stirred in 2002, when Fridman came back to the sport and won the world championship. But rumors of an arm injury helped dampen Olympic expectations, except...
...block inside the cordon, there was no traffic, the no man's land between the front lines was ruled by a horrible silence broken by sudden explosions. It was deserted except for a few Iraqi men hiding in doorways who offered refuge and tea. We started to see signs of fighting, blown out windows and burned buildings, but this was just the edge of the battlefield; it would get much worse as we went deeper into the city. We walked another block and saw three teenagers near the charred remains of a car who asked us where we were going...