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Putting aside the bizarre incidents - like the time an FBI informant set himself on fire in front of the White House in 2004 or the time a small plane crashed into the White House in 1994 - regular, workaday fires like the one that happened this morning in Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial suite at the Old Executive Office are not actually all that common on the White House grounds. Given the 27 wood-burning fireplaces, high volume of bureaucratic traffic and constant maintenance and refurbishing, it is not too bad a record...
Although its name suggests something racy, the X-Club is strictly PG - if you don't count the killing. But it's the killing that brings scores of regulars - mostly professionals in their twenties and thirties, equally divided between men and women - to the basement of a tall building in the affluent and vaguely bohemian Weigongcun district of China's capital. The killing at X-Club, of course, is done with the eyes, in a winking game that in other countries is confined to pre-teens. Killer, also known as Mafia and Murder, has existed in the United States...
...getting ready to go into surgery, consider holding off on the get-well-soon balloons, and start looking for a good massage therapist instead. A new study published in the December issue of the American Medical Association's Archives of Surgery found that massage, in conjunction with regular pain medication, significantly improved patient pain and anxiety after major surgery...
...metric tons, still nearly a thousand-fold difference. And those figures do not include the environmental impacts of shipping and printing. Of course, simplistic assumptions yield simplistic results. In the real world, some rooms on campus never remove their daily copy from their door, while other rooms regularly collect—and presumably go on to read—every publication that is dropped there. The door drop waste reduction campaign seeks to put an end only to the former. Unlike similar programs established in various Houses in the past, for this campaign, publications that get regularly dropped in rooms...
...Contemporary Japanese Studies. "The issue has taken on a life of its own." The government has called the kidnappings "acts of terrorism"; former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set up a special task force on the issue last year. Families of the victims have become national celebrities, and make regular media appearances not only to campaign for their cause but also to speak out on politics and nuclear disarmament. Hatsuhisa Takashima, special assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, says a recent poll shows that "88% of Japanese are interested in the abduction issue and want it resolved...