Wayne Miller's exhaustively researched, novel-like account of Walt Lillehei, a restless, hard-living surgeon who as a young man survived World War II and a deadly case of lymphatic cancer.
Wayne Miller's exhaustively researched, novel-like account of Walt Lillehei, a restless, hard-living surgeon who as a young man had survived World War II and a deadly case of lymphatic cancer.
This is man-made starvation, part of the war policy pursued by Sudan's Islamist government.
Mr Ozawa was the epitome of the modern ideas-man, who understood that the world had changed with the end of the cold war, and that a cringing Japan should change with it.
By 1916 and 1917 the relentless slaughter of a war of attrition had so deepened enmity on both sides that friendly meetings in no-man's-land were all but unthinkable, even at Christmas.
At one extreme, the Supreme Court extended First Amendment protection to the words of a man who physically resisted arrest during an anti-war protest at a draft induction center.
Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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From the brute steroids the East Germans reportedly used on their Olympians during the Cold War to today's man-made versions of natural human proteins, drugs have been as much a staple of the Games as gold, silver and bronze.
Man 'O War Cay has been the centre of Bahamian boat-building for 200 years, with the Albury Brothers still plying the trade along the waterfront.
After all, allowing Chalabi to be painted as someone who successfully duped the President is unlikely to reflect well on the man whose principal claim to reelection is his clear-eyed, visionary conduct of the war on terror.
In Berwick-upon-Tweed, the ceremony started with a blast on a 12ft-high Celtic war horn, while churches in the Isle Of Man and Northern Ireland all took part.
By the early 1960s, the cold war had reduced the Commander in Chief to a cog in the nuclear-terror machine, a man who might be compelled by the momentum of rapid response and first-strike capabilities to launch a war he didn't want.
The US has lost one of its most admired public servants - the man who came up with the plan which successfully got his country out of one unpopular war, and will get it out of another by 2014.
There is Ben Affleck the famous actor and director, and there is less-well-known side of the man: a thoughtful, committed advocate for change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-torn, long-misruled nation that many have written off as a basket case.
The man in charge, Under-Secretary-General Jean Marie Guehenno, explains the challenges of achieving freedom and democracy in war-ravaged nations.
Eager to emulate conditions in the stricken countries of post-war Europe, the researchers wanted to discover how little food a starving man needed in order to recover.
His father was a successful industrialist from Alsace (which had fallen to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71), supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank.
"Oreiller is the man who inspired a lot of kids in Val d'Isere to try to become ski champions in the post-war period, " said Perret, author of a book about one of Val d'Isere's most famous events.
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