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… concern, feminine handicrafts, and good old-fashioned community activism; a dazzlingly colorful and ever-expanding … story, expertly conveyed on the Institute For Figuring’s website at theiff. org) a Latvian émigré mathematician named … referencing the domestic roots of handicraft, the Ladies Silurian Atoll was made by a small and intimate group …
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… her condition, known as trichotillomania—the chronic and compulsive pulling out of one’s own hair. For those with … to report their symptoms. There have been no large-scale studies of the disorder to date. Those who pull their hair out … and maintains a presence at each TLC conference. On its website, Hair Club describes itself as “here to help boost …
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… 2003 The spartan interior of a U.S. Air Force C-130 has uncomfortable web seating. Our gear is strapped to a pallet in … in mud-spewing ATVs. Looking for MANPADS shooters. Those soldiers would just as soon kill a MANPADS team as look at … busts of Saddam have been cut free and craned from pedestals at each of the main roof corners. They have a vaguely …
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… redoubt of Marja, an agricultural town latticed with canals and ditches irrigating the poppy fields that made it a … by insurgents and shared intelligence with international commanders. Even Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services … where Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s military commander, was captured. Coming nearly nine months after …
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… the air in handsprings, sprint down a track, and dodge oncoming players in rugby, my muscles had begun to atrophy by … able to do a sit-up for decades, since the year my mother died, one year before I’d gotten pregnant. That was twenty … an Adirondacks cabin, a swimming pool, and residences for 260 men. The new lap pool at the Y opened in 2014. The …