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"On April 24, 2004, Iraqi insurgents launched three boat attacks on the offshore oil terminal in Basra, iraq. Two boats exploded alongside the terminal while another vessel exploded after it was intercepted by a coalition ship. The facility, which is vital to Iraq's oil exports, was shut down for two days, costing the nation almost 1 million barrels of oil exports the day of the stoppage. ?In September 2004, U.S." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In the current war (at this writing in 2005) in iraq and Afghanistan, that figure has dropped to only 10%. "Though firepower has increased, lethality has decreased,"27 claim the authors. This is undoubtedly true for the long course of history. Yet it seems to us that the low technology of this urban guerilla warfare, where the most dangerous weapons are so-called IEDs (improvised explosive devices), might have something to do with the higher rates of survival. WHAT IF? What if emergency medicine and its allied specialties disappeared?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The Lonely American's one nod towards any participation or even awareness of a larger, communal, national life is the placement of a yellow ribbon decal, in honor of the troops in iraq, on the SUVs bumper, or a bumper sticker that makes some general statement about "freedom" and "liberty." Otherwise, he is curiously buffered from the pressing causes of the day—save for his bumper sticker, it's as if a war doesn't exist, and no one seems to care or notice that, for example, the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Demonstrating another aspect of its high-tech dominance, the United States deployed its superior military technology in the Persian Gulf in 1991, in Kosovo in 1999, in Afghanistan in 2002, and in iraq in 2003. It showed an ability and willingness to use its technology to kill large numbers of people with impunity, since it faced relatively few losses of its own. China's outrage against the United States after the accidental bombing of its embassy in Belgrade is illustrative of foreign reaction." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "King Sargon of Agade in Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers" that is now iraq, boasted that ships from as far afield as Dilmun (Bahrein) and Meluhha (the Indus Valley, seat of the ancient Harappan civilization) tied up at Agade's quays. Sailors in this long-distance trade down the Persian Gulf and across to South Asia must have observed the seasonal changes in ocean winds and scheduled their voyages accordingly." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Basra at the head of the Gulf and much of extreme southern iraq, the northern portion of the Gulf was an enormous estuary fed by the Euphrates and Tigris. As sea levels stabilized, the delta filled in with silt, but the water table remained high. Unfortunately, thick layers of river silt and rising sea levels put the Gulf's ancient shores and the banks of the Ur-Schatt beyond the reach of the archaeologist's spade." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The Sumerians created the world's first civilization in Mesopotamia at a critical moment in history—when sea levels stabilized and short-term drought cycles related to the Southern Oscillation and periodic monsoon failures became a reality of life in Egypt and southern iraq. The Persian Gulf is probably the most studied stretch of water on earth. Nowhere deeper than one hundred meters, the seabed flattens into a gentle basin about forty meters below modern sea level. During the height of the last Ice Age, this was dry land." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"On a sunny fall day in Iowa in 2005 the parents of Staff Sergeant Bruce Pollema greeted the 2168th Transportation Company as the soldiers returned from iraq. Betty and Wilmar Pollema sat in the football bleachers at Sheldon High School, among a crowd of hundreds, who cheered and waved flags as they caught sight of loved ones they had not seen for more than a year. "Bruce was very dear to us," Betty Pollema later said, remembering that bright October day when the troops came home. "It was very, very hard for us to know that our son was not coming off that bus." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The soldier perhaps never realized the danger in the prescription pills, which eased the intense pain threatening to get in the way of his tour of duty in iraq. Colby had been a determined soul, who often spoke the words that had become his personal motto: "Get 'er done." His mother explained that her son had gone to the dentist at his commander's request to have the tooth pulled before leaving for the Middle East. But Colby had suffered what is called a dry socket, in which the hole left when a tooth comes out does not heal. The excruciating pain can last for weeks." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "A crowd had gathered to bid farewell to the soldiers of the 2168th Transportation Company, who would soon be running supplies in iraq. Colby drove the semitruck assigned to the pair. He waved at a television news crew at the side of the road that was filming the troops' departure. A Black Hawk military helicopter flying nearby carried a Humvee in a sling. The soldiers had just passed through the main gate when the right wheel of the truck went gently off the edge of the narrow road. If Colby tried to get the tire back on the road, he moved far too slowly." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Archaeologists are probing the ruins of iraq, Honan, Crete, and Yucatan. Ethnologists are questioning the Ostiaks of the river Ob, the Boobies of Fernando Po. A generation of orientalists has recently thrown open to us the sacred writings of the East, as well as the pre-Hebrew sources of our own Holy Writ. And meanwhile another host of scholars, pressing researches begun last century in the field of folk psychology, has been seeking to establish the psychological bases of language, myth, religion, art development, and moral codes." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The show never aired (it got bumped by the iraq War), but the conversation I had with the anchor-woman as I sat perched on a high stool waiting for the cameraman to get set up was memorable. "It's ironic that I am acting as a spokesman for taking drugs, since I am writing a book that says that many people are taking drugs they don't need," I said. "What drugs are you writing about?" she asked. "Everything: antidepressants, statins, meds for hypertension." "My husband is a tennis pro," she said. "He went to his doctor, who checked his cholesterol and put him on Lipitor." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Shirley Paulson, the chief nurse in the ICU in Palo Alto, has a son in iraq. This gives VA workers a sense of pride when they care for the men and women who share that experience, and it shows in the tenderness they display to their patients and their commitment to improving the quality of care they deliver. The patients, too, seem more grateful for the care they receive than patients you see in other hospitals and clinics. Part of that comes from the fact that VA primary care doctors have time to spend with their patients." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Habitat: The plant grows in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, northwest iraq and the border area between Iran and iraq. Production: Tragacanth is the latex, which exudes from the bark of Astralagus gummifer and other varieties." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Did the so-called Gulf War Syndrome result from the fact that highly stressed American soldiers, already facing combat during the first iraq war in 1991, were then given multiple powerful vaccines—as many of 24 different kinds—that their stressed-out immune systems were unable to properly defend against? In an aging population, were there particular stressors— such as mourning the death of a spouse, or caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's—that undermined already vulnerable immune systems?77 What about cancer?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"If you journey northwest from iraq into the present-day Turkish province of Mardin, you'll be traveling along the path still taken by Kurdish free traders—smugglers, if you prefer—who were making the journey for a thousand years before German engineers began building the Isranbul—Baghdad railway as the first leg of a line intended to run all the way to Berlin. Forty miles southwest from the provincial capital, on the Turkish-Syrian border, is the town of Nusaybin, located at the mouth of a narrow canyon where the Gorgonbonizra River drains out of the mountains of Asia Minor." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Just to the east of the mountain ranges, the plateau of Jordan and Syria gradually drops from an average altitude of fifteen hundred feet to only a bit above sea level in iraq.2 • Historians writing in western languages use half a dozen variant spellings for Khusro's name, including Cyrus, Chosroes, Xusro, and Khosro. The result is this: What begins in the west as an extremely fertile region, particularly around the northern river valleys, rapidly becomes a desert." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Wheeling right, the Arabs invaded Iraq; turning left, they besieged Damascus. Heraclius, aged and weakened by decades of battle, nonetheless was alert enough to the danger rhat he dispatched an army to confront the invaders, which was quickly defeated somewhere between Jerusalem and Gaza. His artention now fully engaged, the emperor assembled a much more formidable force at Antioch, and sent it south." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"If 10,000 American soldiers died in one year in iraq, it would be called carnage. As the late Cleveland Clinic uro-logic surgeon William Engel said, "It is acceptable to lose an occasional patient, but best not to hasten them along." One of my recent patients had a terrifying experience with interventional cardiology. In September 2004, Jim Milligan, an insurance executive from Wooster, Ohio, was helping his wife can tomatoes. Suddenly he began to sweat and felt considerable chest pain. He sat up all night, the pain constant." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "That's about the same amount the nation spent on the first two and half years of its military venture in iraq, and fully twice as much as the federal government allocates annually for all research and development—including R&D for defense and national security.1 But here is the truly shocking statistic: nearly all of that money is devoted to treating symptoms. It pays for cardiac drugs, for clot-dissolving medications, and for costly mechanical techniques that bypass clogged arteries or widen them with balloons, tiny rotating knives, lasers, and stents." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Look at the headlines: car bombs in Iraq; teenage girls killed by predators they encounter on myspace .com; lying presidents; melting snows in the Antarctic; corporate scandals, not to mention the old staples of death, mortality, and disease. Maybe, if you feel sadness at such things, you're aware and sensitive and alive. Maybe it's a credit to your constitution, demonstrating that you are capable of thinking, feeling, responding, breathing, and yes, suffering. As Percy says in Lost in the Cosmos: Assume that you are quite right [to be depressed]." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Because many of them are in politically unstable regions, their genetic material is in danger. Iraq's seed bank, which had been located in Abu Ghraib, was demolished during U.S. attacks, but not before two hundred valuable seeds were shipped to Syria for safekeeping. One of the most ambitious conservation endeavors ever attempted by humanity is a seed bank near the North Pole that aims to create a genetic backup of the world's most important plants." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"And CNN reports in 2007 that nearly a third of veterans returning from iraq and Afghanistan come home with psychiatric or psychosocial ills. (Posttraumatic stress disorder led the way, accounting for almost half of all diagnoses, followed by anxiety, adjustment disorders, depression, and substance abuse disorders.)28 In the aftermath of each of those events, there has been extensive media coverage, discussion, and debate about the mental health of the victims." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The "shell shock" of the survivors of World War I led to some novel treatments (some innovative and compassionate, others as horrific as the war itself), as well as the rise of the "mental hygiene" movement of the 1920s and 1930s; the experience of Vietnam veterans led direcdy to the entry of posttraumatic stress disorder into the revised psychiatric diagnostic manual in 1980; and a considerable amount of the news coverage of the iraq War has addressed the (deteriorating) mental status of the troops, with calls for more assessment, treatment, and general vigilance for their fragile psyches." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Al Quaeda has laid down its guns in both Afghanistan and iraq, and the terrorist group has agreed to peaceful disarmament in exchange for its members partaking in the building up of those nations. Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds have created autonomous regions in iraq with all of them peacefully sharing in the oil bounty. The country is healing the anger and madness of the last fifty years as organizations peopled by participants from each sector rebuild the country. America has chosen to withdraw its troops and return home, using those soldiers in productive peacetime programs." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Habitat: The plant grows in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, northwest iraq and the border area between Iran and iraq. Production: Tragacanth is the latex, which exudes from the bark of Astralagus gummifer and other varieties." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"This was well demonstrated in the Minamata Bay exposures (from toxic dumping into the ocean) and the iraq grain contamination disaster (mercury was applied to prevent spoilage of grain used for planting, but the grain was eaten by accident). But mercury is also toxic at very low doses. We have already looked at mercury in dental amalgams and vaccines, but environmental exposures are also significant risks. The largest is from consumption of large fish contaminated with mercury such as tuna, swordfish, shark, tilefish, and sea bass, as well as nearly all river fish." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Televised newsmagazines, for example, have carried stories of soldiers returning from the battlefields of iraq with injuries that their doctors say will prevent them from ever walking again. And then something happens—an inner experience that's not quite understood in medical terms—and a year later such people are running a marathon. Or we hear of everyday people who suddenly have what appears to be a superhuman ability that they have never exhibited before—for example, the strength to save another person's life, as was the case of Tom Boyle of Tucson, Arizona, in the summer of 2006." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Others asked politely why we were involved in the subterranean oil tiff between Kuwait and iraq. There wasn't a moment of serious anti-Americanism. If anything, people were universally friendly and pro-American. The big lesson, as always, was "these Muslims aren't the same as those Muslims." This time, in the post-9/11 world, it was hardly different. The 2003 U.S. invasion of iraq brought riots outside the U.S." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"In any case, children and adults who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1953, along the Agano River in Niigata, Japan, in 1962, and other locations in iraq, Pakistan, and Guatemala, all have suffered death, coma, or a variety of brain and neurological damage. Researchers in Taiwan say they have established for the first time that the mercury compound present as a contaminant in some seafood can damage the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

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