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...troops push into the center of Najaf later on Friday, a group of militiamen starts to dance in a circle, chanting with growing intensity. Later, a proud fighter reports to his comrades, "We destroyed two tanks." Though the U.S. military has reported no casualties in the area, the insurgents spread their version of reality. The Americans sacrificed dozens of men to recover the hulks, the fighter claims, and explains to journalists why nothing remains from the site of the battle: "They brought along a huge machine that sucked up all the parts, so there is nothing left...
...those heading to developing nations, typhoid fever and cholera--both of which, like hepatitis A, are spread via contaminated food and water--also are concerns. Since the typhoid vaccine is not entirely effective, and the one for cholera is no longer offered in the U.S., people traveling to more remote locations are often told to eat only cooked foods and drink bottled water, Davenport notes...
...mayor of Marseillan, the little town on the Mediterranean coast where Adamski and Dekens live, will join the two in marriage. It will be a joyous day; it is also against French law. The Adamski-Dekens match is part of an argument over same-sex marriage that has spread through the developed world in recent months. Last week in Massachusetts, where gay marriage has been legal since May 17, the Cape Cod resort of Provincetown yielded to a request from the Governor to stop marrying out-of-staters. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard asked Parliament to define marriage...
...under Singh’s tenure, India could begin to emerge from large-scale poverty. As finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh began the effort to scale back India’s mammoth bureaucracy. At the same time, Singh acknowledges that much work needs to be done to spread the benefits of India’s economic growth to the rural majority...
...itself pretty old as well—it’s been around and stirring up controversy since long before Viagra. Indeed, the first e-mail chain letter was sent across the nascent Internet in 1982 right as current college seniors were being born. A good benchmark for the spread of spam is the size of various lists of potential targets offered for sale over the years—in 1995 lists of around 2 million e-mail addresses could be purchased, but this number skyrocketed to 7 million in a year, reached 80 million...