"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The man tied his shoes. Then he untied them just to do it again.
Liath Aqar was one of seven Iraqi small-business owners who received finished prosthetic hands after almost six weeks of surgery to prepare their arms, along with recovery and fittings in Houston.
The men got their prosthetics nine years after agents of Saddam Hussein's government cut off their right hands to punish small-business owners for Iraq's collapsing economy.
He cut off their hands to improve the economy? It was a mad mad place, Saddam's Iraq. posted by Sydney on
5/18/2004 08:18:00 PM
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