Empty Stomach Battle Ends, Some Demands Met
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GAZA CITY , September 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails have decided to call off an 18-day hunger strike after most of their demands for better conditions were met, according to a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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While the two sides in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case have been fighting bitterly in court, all along they have been quietly exchanging offers of a settlement.
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She lost count of the vodka shots. It was New Year's Eve 2005, and for this high school freshman, it was time to party. She figured she'd be able to sleep it off -- she'd done it before. But by the time she got home the next day, her head was still pounding, her mouth was dry, and she couldn't fo...
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ATLANTA _ North and South Carolina are fighting over a river. In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniels whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers. And in Georgia, the governor is praying for rain.
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NEW YORK  - Over two years ago, the case of  a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after  donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of  media attention. According to a report published this month,  fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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When you have spent the last two months staring grimly at your own navel, the need for a victory - any victory - assumes desperate proportions.
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A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly monthlong hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.
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In the end, everybody got to exhale. How's that for a finishing touch?
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Food, fuel, and know-how are flowing into the totalitarian state, but citizens are dispirited.
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An end-of-the-session food fight over a milk support program erupted Friday in Congress, stalling action on legislation ranging from corporate tax cuts to hurricane and drought relief and preventing lawmakers from adjourning to hit the campaign trail.
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Hungry, thirsty, desperate residents fought each other to get food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by
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More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.
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There was no room to move. Even less to breathe. But nobody seemed to mind. The sea of bodies just kept swaying. To the left, the right and back to the left again.
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Those $70 lunches and $14 "Death By Chocolate" desserts are gone from the executive menu at the government's legal aid program for the poor. Expensive hotels, limousine services and first-class travel will become rare or disappear, too.
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NEW YORK  - Foods that fill you up without packing a ton of calories can help in the battle of the bulge, results of a new study suggest.
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Life & style: Jury out as school joins forces with gastro-pub in search for healthier lunches.