Word: exception
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Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas tents are pitched amid boulders and mounds of ammunition: RPG-7s, launchers, bazookas. With its cool caves and grassy marshes harboring frogs, Islam Dara is a boy's paradise out of Kipling. But the dozen or so boys who stay there are living an idyll...
Even the plot is complex enough to require Cliffs Notes. It goes like this. Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is a 21st century construction worker: a happily married man occasionally nagged by dreams of Martian landscapes. Except he isn't. He is really Hauser, an agent from Mars Intelligence who has been given the memory of Quaid in order to fulfill a dark and secret mission that will shuttle him between the planets...
...federal laws require doctors to begin treatment of all babies except those who would clearly not benefit. But no regulations guide a physician's decision to stop treatment. This has become a pressing issue because the very technology that can save infants often inflicts profound ; handicaps, such as blindness, cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders. Among the effects of erring on the side of life, say the authors: "We save some who would otherwise have died, we do immediate harm to and inflict long- term suffering on many who survive, and we expend an enormous amount of money on neonatal...
...University of Florida have developed a strain of grass so resistant to drought that in some locales, it may not need to be watered at all. The university's test patch, at a research center near Fort Lauderdale, is thick and green, even though it has received no water, except for an occasional rainfall, since March...
...Except for passing up a pay raise, there is nothing the Senate abhors more than sitting in judgment of one of its own. But unless Minnesota's errant Republican David Durenberger resigns in the next few weeks, the "world's most exclusive club" will soon face a wrenching choice: oust him or appear to condone repeated instances of rule evasion and lawbreaking...