Wilfred Thesiger lived with and observed the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Here’s a quote: One afternoon, a few days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his mudhif [guest house made of reeds] by a boy wearing […]
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Her eyesight has faded to the point where she can no longer shoot straight and her limbs have grown stiff, but Afghanistan’s only female warlord is still unassailable in her remote eyrie high in the mountains of north-east Afghanistan. Known as Kaftar, or “The Pigeon”, 55-year-old Bibi Ayisha has fought off the Russians, the Taliban
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Working. At the day job. A lot. At least the overtime is nice.
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I’m in NYC this weekend for me and B’s anniversary. Going out to see “The Producers” and actually look around the city a bit. Yea, I’ve been commuting into this city for a year and.. haven’t seen much of the city. But hey, if you only saw your SO once a month, what do you
If I have to run one more report, I’ll vomit. Pretty exhausted. Left work early with the, “It’s Valentine’s Day,” excuse. Got some food. Taking a nap. Just too much going on over here to keep my head on straight.
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Survived my time in Indy – anybody know any good telecommunications CMs? We’re hiring. In other news, K moved out the rest of her stuff yesterday, and me and Jenn are hitting Ikea and Target today to re-stock the house with furniture (we have no couch, microwave, or kitchen island now). We’ve been trying to
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Administration of testosterone to men markedly reduces sperm counts and is a very efficient and well tolerated method of contraception. Combinations with progestogens or with gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists are even more effective and suggest that hormonal contraception in men is feasible and may be as effective as the currently used methods.
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The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect. The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years. In the end, those assigned to a low-fat diet
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For awhile, anyway. These are always long days. I’m behind on some other projects. I’ll get caught up this weekend.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation estimates 19 million women worldwide will have an unsafe abortion in 2006; a similar number took this risky step last year – 70,000 died.