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...hard to say. I got on okay with the Marines, which hopefully comes across in the book. But it was like a cat and wild dogs staring at each other. It was completely different species. We were from such different worlds. I knew that the last thing they probably wanted was to have me sort of sitting there. I would like to think that I wasn't outwardly terrified, but I did ask a lot of annoying questions. Having me write about them must be just a really disconcerting experience. Having some guy you've never met before, from...
...Baghdad's supercharged political atmosphere, it was inevitable that reaction to Wednesday's tragedy on the Bridge of the Imams would be colored by sectarian sentiment. Within a couple of hours the city was already rife with wild rumors of an impending backlash by Shia pilgrims incensed by the death of nearly 800 of their fellows. Many streets were empty, and security forces were out in strength...
...rooting on behalf of your late father of blessed memory. But I have no such alibi. These hand-me-down no-name castoffs are strangers. And torturers, I tell you. They stop the swoon and win four in a row. They're in the thick of the wild-card chase. They're coming back! But I'm no fool. I've been here before. It's a setup. It's a tease. The idea is to raise my hopes again so they can ruin my September...
...slightly scary that there are people around who are taking it so lightly," says John Oxford, a professor of virology at Queen Mary School of Medicine in London, who studies the avian flu virus. Oxford argues the Netherlands' response is a more effective way to reduce the risk of wild birds transmitting the virus. The Dutch learned their lesson the hard way two years ago; then a milder virus strain led to the death or destruction of 31 million birds at a cost of more than j780 million. The virus also infected 83 people, most of whom suffered mild symptoms...
...know themselves better [PEOPLE, July 25]. Long admired as an original thinker, Lynch won many fans with his darkly atmospheric 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. TIME deemed the show "hauntingly original." As the 1990 fall TV season began, we devoted a cover story to Lynch, describing him as a "wild-at-art genius" and including his whimsical remarks on staying young [Oct. 1, 1990]: "Listen to [Lynch] on the subject of aging?which, as so many things do, attracts and repels him. 'Scientists are working right now ... to give us a better life. I hope they make some big breakthroughs...