A stark assessment has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
In 1988, Tim Phelan was an ambitious new college grad with a degree in French and economics. He dreamed of becoming a successful international businessman–but his life took quite a different turn, thanks to his overactive bowels. Through more than a decade of battling what he would eventually find out was irritable bowel syndrome, he lost a job and several relationships, unwilling to discuss his symptoms with anyone and obsessed with never being far from a bathroom. Now 39, he is able to speak frankly about his travails with IBS–and recently did with U.S. News–and has shared lessons learned in a new book, Romance, Riches, and Restrooms: A Cautionary Tale of Ambitious Dreams and Irritable Bowels (iUniverse, $19.95).
In 1988, Tim Phelan was an ambitious new college grad with a degree in French and economics. He dreamed of becoming a successful international businessman–but his life took quite a different turn, thanks to his overactive bowels. Through more than a decade of battling what he would eventually find out was irritable bowel syndrome, he lost a job and several relationships, unwilling to discuss his symptoms with anyone and obsessed with never being far from a bathroom. Now 39, he is able to speak frankly about his travails with IBS–and recently did with U.S. News–and has shared lessons learned in a new book, Romance, Riches, and Restrooms: A Cautionary Tale of Ambitious Dreams and Irritable Bowels (iUniverse, $19.95).
AP - Three young children were found dead Saturday, hours after a woman was charged with killing their pregnant mother and her fetus in a grisly attack in which authorities believe her womb was cut open after she was knocked unconscious.
AP - Venezuela's foreign minister said he was illegally detained for 90 minutes at a New York airport Saturday by U.S. authorities whom he accused of treating him abusively and attempting to frisk him.
AP - A bomb claimed by a Sunni Arab extremist group killed at least 37 Shiites in Baghdad on Saturday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U.S. military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month.
French President Jacques Chirac said on Saturday he would investigate the leak of confidential French defense ministry documents containing a report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, and said that report has been in no way confirmed.
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