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The head of a nation is the capital; the head of a human body is its capital. When I read about the regeneration, development, changes and specialties of the cities in your stories, I discovered that the people who successfully transformed the unheralded places you described used their heads to...
"[The fire in the] recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough...
Ogletree said in the interview that he first learned of the issue when Balkin, tipped off by an anonymous letter, called him. Kagan also received an anonymous letter reporting the issue, Ogletree said.
Indeed, most Islamic experts condemn the hostage murders for the same reason that--anti-American sentiment aside--they condemned the Sept. 11 attacks: the Prophet's prohibition on killing noncombatants, or, as he put it, "a woman or a child, or a hermit, a farmer plowing his field, [or] a...
But as with Vietnam vets, the ability of New Yorkers to process a trauma depends largely on how close people were to the carnage. Researchers have created a matrix called the World Trade Center Exposure Scale to measure this. They've learned that exposure can mean having watched the towers...