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...Just when you thought it was safe... In 1972, the Clean Water Act, which called for "swimmable, fishable waters," prompted a Potomac purging. But last fall, the appearance of intersex fish - which have male and female organs - renewed concerns about swimming, fishing and drinking the water...
...infectious diseases,” Duggan wrote in an e-mail. Such stress patterns, according to Duggan, can lead to either a lowered appetite or an increase in food consumption “as a response to the psychological stress of exams.” Nkuebe, it seems safe to say, is experiencing the latter. But Duggan’s statement concerning the ambiguity of the appetite’s response to stress was borne out by other student testimony. “I feel like a bite takes away a tiny piece of time that I can?...
...Vanya, however, is bereft. His dream is to be reunited with his birth mother, whose name he does not know. With the help of one of the whores, he learns to read, breaks into the safe where his records are stored, discovers her whereabouts and enters upon an odyssey of discovery that is dangerous - he is, after all, only 6 - yet touched by occasional grace notes. He is pursued by the adoption agent and her very tough bodyguard (if they don't deliver the boy they will not receive their fee) and in his travels he encounters people who wish...
...Eikenberry, who is coming to the end of his second tour in the country but will leave Afghanistan later this month, argues that 2007 is critical. The Taliban has returned with a vengeance, Pakistan has become a safe haven for insurgent attacks, NATO has failed to send as many troops as initially pledged, and indications are that the enemy is gearing up for a new offensive. "It is going to be a violent spring," Eikenberry told a small group of reporters in Kabul on Tuesday...
...roadside bombs last year, compared with 783 in 2005. So-called direct attacks (small arms, grenades and other weapons) tripled from 1,558 in 2005 to 4,542 last year. In one area on the Afghan-Pakistan border, the focus of a peace pact signed last September, attacks from safe havens inside Pakistan have jumped some 300%. "The enemy is taking advantage of that agreement to launch attacks into Afghanistan," said Army Colonel Tom Collins, Eikenberry's spokesman...