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2. As Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 by calling for "peace with honor" in Vietnam, McCarthy offered her own warning about the dangers that arose when the office of the presidency collided with an American desire never to be labeled a loser: "The American so-called free-enterprise system, highly competitive, investment-conscious, expansionist, repels a loser policy by instinctive defense movements centering in the ganglia of the presidency. No matter what direction the incumbent, as candidate, was pointing in, he slowly pivots once he assumes office."
Questions for President Obama: Have you, like Vietnam-era presidents, pivoted toward yet another surge simply to avoid the label of "loser" in Afghanistan? And if the cost of victory (however defined) is hundreds, or even thousands, more American military casualties, hundreds of billions of additional dollars spent, and extensive collateral damage and blowback, will this "victory" not be a pyrrhic one, achieved at a price so dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat?
3. Though critical of the U.S. military in Vietnam, McCarthy was even more critical of American civilian officials there. "On the whole," she wrote, they "behaved like a team of promoters with a dubious 'growth' stock they were brokering." At least military men were often more forthright than the civilians, if not necessarily more self-aware, McCarthy noted, because they were part of the war—the product, so to speak—not its salesmen.
Questions for President Obama: In promising to send a new "surge" of State Department personnel and other civilians into Afghanistan, are you prepared as well to parse their words? Are you braced in case they sell you a false bill of goods, even if the sellers themselves, in their eagerness to speak fairy tales to power, continually ignore the Fantasyland nature of their tale?
4. Well before Bush administration officials boasted about creating their own reality and new "facts on the ground" in Iraq, Mary McCarthy recognized the danger of another type of "fact": "The more troops and matériel committed to Vietnam, the more retreat appears to be cut off—not by an enemy, but by our own numbers. To call for withdrawal in the face of that commitment... is to seem to argue not against a policy, but against facts, which by their very nature are unanswerable."
Questions for President Obama: If your surge in Afghanistan fails, will you be able to de-escalate as quickly as you escalated? Or will the fact that you've put more troops in harm's way (with all their equipment and all the money that will go into new base and airfield and road construction), and committed more of your prestige to prevailing, make it even harder to consider leaving?
5. A cursory reading of The Pentagon Papers, the famously secret government documents on Vietnam leaked to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg, reveals how skeptical America's top officials were, early on, in pursuing a military solution to the situation in South Vietnam. Nevertheless, knowing better, the "best and brightest," as journalist David Halberstam termed them in his famous, ironic book title, still talked themselves into it; and they did so, as McCarthy noted, because they set seemingly meaningful goals ("metrics" or "benchmarks," we'd say today), which they then convinced themselves they were actually achieving. When you trick yourself into believing that you're meeting your goals, as Halberstam noted, there's no reason to reexamine your course of action.
Questions for President Obama: Much has been written about an internal struggle within your administration over the wisdom of surging in Afghanistan. Now, you, too, have called for the setting of "benchmarks" for your new strategy's success. Are you wise enough to set them to capture the complexities of political realities on the ground rather than playing to American strengths? Are you capable of re-examining them, even when your advisors assure you that they are being achieved?
6. In her day, Mary McCarthy recognized the inequities of burden-sharing at home when it came to the war in Vietnam: "Casualty figures, still low [in 1967], seldom strike home outside rural and low-income groups—the silent part of society. The absence of sacrifices [among the privileged classes] has had its effect on the opposition [to the war], which feels no need, on the whole, to turn away from its habitual standards and practices—what for? We have not withdrawn our sympathy from American power and from the way of life that is tied to it—a connection that is more evident to a low-grade G.I. in Vietnam than to most American intellectuals."
Questions for President Obama: Are you willing to listen to the common G.I. as well as to the generals who have your ear? Are you willing to insist on greater equity in burden-sharing, since once again most of the burden of Iraq and Afghanistan has fallen on "the silent part of society"? Are you able to recognize that the "best and brightest" in the corridors of power may not be the wisest exactly because they have so little to lose (and perhaps much to gain) from our "overseas contingency operations"?
7. McCarthy was remarkably perceptive when it came to the seductiveness of American technological prowess. Our technological superiority, she wrote, was a large part of "our willingness to get into Vietnam and stay there... The technological gap between us and the North Vietnamese constituted, we thought, an advantage which obliged us not to quit."
Questions for President Obama: Rather than providing us with a war-winning edge, might our robot drones, satellite imagery, and all our other gadgetry of war seduce us into believing that we can "prevail" at a reasonable and sustainable cost? Indeed, do we think we should prevail precisely because our high-tech military brags of "full spectrum dominance"?
One bonus lesson from Mary McCarthy before we take our leave of her: Even now, we speak too often of "Bush's war" or, more recently, "Obama's war." Before we start chattering mindlessly about Iraq and Afghanistan as American tragedies, we would do well to recall what McCarthy had to say about the war in Vietnam: "There is something distasteful," she wrote, "in the very notion of approaching [Vietnam] as an American tragedy, whose protagonist is a great suffering Texan [President Lyndon Baines Johnson]."
Yes, there is something distasteful about a media that blithely refers to Bush's or Obama's war as hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis suffer. For American troops, after all, are not the only ones paying the ultimate price when the U.S. fights foreign wars for ill-considered reasons and misguided goals.
William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), taught for six years at the Air Force Academy. A TomDispatch regular, he currently teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology and is the author of Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (Potomac Press, 2005), among other works. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"The Bachelor: Where Are They Now?" is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET Monday, March 10.
It doesn't appear that all 11 previous Bachelors will be taking part. Aaron Buerge (season two) and Andrew Firestone (season three) will provide updates on their post-show lives, but others, it seems, will only be seen in clip form.
Among the women featured in the special are upcoming "Bachelorette" DeAnna Pappas; Charlie O'Connell's chosen woman, Sarah Brice; Moana Dixon, the final woman eliminated during "The Bachelor: Paris"; and Trish Schneider, who tracked down Jesse Palmer after being eliminated in season five. Viewers will also get a preview of the upcoming season, which premieres March 17 with Londoner Matt Grant at its center.
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Many foreigners are ready to settle in Abuja because of the housing glut in Europe —FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed
Occupying one of the nation's revered political offices comes with its complex contradictions and controversies. But the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, appears to be in firm grips of affairs despite the many challenges that he has had to grapple with since his reappointment. In this interview with a select group of editors in Abuja, Mohammed laid bare his plans to transform the city and made clarifications on some thorny issues pertaining to his administrative style. Our Managing Editor, Northern Operations, YUSUF ALLI, and Abuja Bureau Chief, YOMI ODUNUGA, were there. Excerpts:
Can you give an overview of what you have been doing since your appointment and how you have been piloting the affairs?
For me, persuasion rather than persecution did the magic. It is a leadership style that I believe in. We have been carrying people along in a manner that our own responsibility is to make people understand what the government is doing. It is their government and leadership. In any case, whatever we do that will not add value to their lives, no matter how good and noble, is not important. The FCT, as you all know, was established in 1976 by a decree. Of course, since then, there have been two bodies-the ministry and later the Federal Capital Development Authority-established as a project parastatal. Later in 2003, it was made a territory like a state as per the constitutional provision of section 299 that the FCT be considered as if it were a state. So, it has really metamorphosed into a ministry that is akin to a state and now we have the FCDA and other parastatals running essentially to build a federal capital that will be the pride of all Nigerians. Our business is not to have assets and liabilities, but to provide facilities for governance, including the private sectors in terms of infrastructure and services. Since then, we have expanded. We have about seven secretariats which are like ministries with commissioners and secretaries overseeing them. Just like in the states, we have the executive secretaries in the FCDA, driving the project of infrastructures and services; and, of course, we have expanded the other departments like environmental, infrastructure investment agency and satellite town development agency which was just created recently by His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to make the development of the federal capital city at par with the satellite towns.
In the FCT, there seems to be this feeling of mistrust by residents in the way the authorities handle the issue of land administration.
What are you doing about this?
Our major thrust is to make sure we bring land reform administration. It was the first thing that we embarked on, to make sure that we make land registration transparent and in accordance with the global best practices where people access land without so much difficulties. And the turnaround time is such that somebody who has the capacity or the finance or the resources will be able to access land and develop and also to do away with fraud. In the past, there was a lot of fraud starting from the speculation. That has always been the problem of any department which has to do with land allocation.We had to block all the gaps and make sure we flushed out some people, not because we didn't like them, but because they appeared to be constituting problems to our desire to evolve a transparent land administration system. Today, we have established the land use allocation committee as a vehicle and as a provision of the land use act to make sure that states, local governments and indeed all members of the federating states are given land without necessarily showing their faces, without any personal attachment, but on the basis of what is provided as per the template for allocation. But, of course, we don't have all the resources. By this, I mean the cadastral on the ground to give land to all those who deserve it. So even on the basis of availability, we'll make sure we spread it as per federal character since it is the way it is provided in the land use allocation act.
Has there been any remarkable improvement in Internally Generated Revenue?
We have done so much and we have been able to increase our IGR in terms of payment and collection and we have reached a 27 per cent increase, not minding the prevalence of fraud in the department. Some of the payments made for premium are circulated or round-tripped in a manner that one draft can be used to pay two or three or more land premiums for the same purpose. What we have done to check this was to adopt the e-payment system and that is why, today, we have been able to reach where we are in terms of generation of revenue on land. Of course, because we want to stop the obnoxious practice where land officers in the area councils and the satellite towns exploit the gullibility of the Nigerian public to collect money and allocate land, we stopped land allocation in the area councils and centralized it. This is because we realised that, since the establishment of Abuja, no deeds and titles had been given to any holder in the area council from Abaji up to Lugbe. So we established a new vehicle called Area Council Land Accreditation Outreach (ACLAO) just at par with the Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) to make sure that about 100,000 allottees that are just holding papers today are given attention in terms of coming to verify and getting their certificates of occupancies. From that, we envisaged that we are going to get more than N50 to N60 billion in terms of revenue, while, at the same time, it would provide those holding the titles just in terms of allocation the opportunity to have certified certificates of occupancy that they will use to access small loans and use them as collateral.
Housing is another major problem in the FCT, do you have any blueprint to reduce the accommodation challenges faced by residents?
This is another area that is fraught with fraud because it started as an accelerated development programme on a time line. It had exited about two years ago, but people are still keeping allocations which they bought from those who must have had the resources to do it or by those whose closeness to the administration or discretion on the unilateral decision they were given. But because of their capacity, they sold them and the people who bought them are still keeping them in 10s and 20s. And when we make allocations, because they still existed in our AGIS system, they become dual allocations or double allocations, and so we have streamlined that. I made sure that, henceforth, those getting mass housing allocation must be people who have business plans and are worth their financial capacity. We want to give land to those who can develop them for mass housing. Our worry is that the whole area of mass housing has not been provided with primary infrastructure because we give the land free. Unfortunately, they subdivided the land and made up N500m per allocation when the government had not had anything. This is not fair to government because we have to look inwards. Henceforth, we make sure those getting land will pay a certain premium that will not impinge on their capacity to develop. The government had, in the past, given land free for mass housing because of the need to provide affordable housing. Affordable in the sense that right from the registration of the land, you are not paying anything.At the end of the day, we will achieve a rent value that is affordable by the masses for the same value. But this has not been achieved because Nigerians take things for granted. At the end of the day, the common man is not benefitting from the service and we end up not having the infrastructure and not having the houses. We end up with speculators, using the allocation as a commodity to make money. So we are abandoning that sector by making sure we make land more available to the people who can develop, but at a cost.
Is there any plan to tackle the high cost of rent in the FCT?
Soon, we will be coming out with a bill to make sure we regulate the rent regime in the territory. It is simply not fair for somebody to be asked to use his salary to pay N500, 000, N2 million or N5 million for two-bedroom or three- bedroom flat when our own actual earning is not up to that. So that is encouraging corruption and government has a responsibility to do that, even if we are borrowing from the developed societies. In London, in Paris, in America, people pay for houses for weeks or some months. So why are we insisting on two years, why are we insisting on five years and then the value is so high beyond the affordable level of our earnings? We will make sure that the Nigerian public workers and other private sectors are getting rents that they can afford genuinely and sincerely.
A modern capital like Abuja cannot be developed without the infusion of foreign investment, are you making any progress in this area?
First of all, we'll talk about the investment opportunities. We have opened the former Bakassi market where we made allocations to the Churchgate Group and other groups which were in court when we came. We made sure we removed all the impediments and then gave them licences to develop that place. We also have investors who are putting up over $2.6billion for a World Trade Centre that will give over 10, 000 jobs to Nigerians.
Past ministers were faced with the issue of resettling the original dwellers of Abuja, have you evolved a better way of handling the matter?
Like my predecessors, we have challenges in the areas of resettlement and compensation because what we require is more than N150b to settle the original settlers. For some time, it has been a big problem when you have Nigerians living in the territory that is carved out as a no man's land and they are not being transferred. They are not being resettled somewhere and they impinge on the development of infrastructure because all the districts were named after towns that were originally here before. Even today, Garki is not resettled Gusape is not resettled. Jabi village is not resettled and it constitutes a security problem. Only Wuse and Maitama are fully settled in Sabon -Wuse. Whereas we are building houses within the city because the concept of resettlement has been re-conceptualised to bring integration and so rather than taking people out of their territory, they are being integrated in the city and yet we don't have the huge capital outlay required to build houses for them. Even when the houses are being built, they do not capture the culture and tradition. They are built in such a manner that they are just one room for somebody with three wives and five kids. So they sell them and go to another place to resettle because they are kin and kits and they further aggravate the resettlement and compensation problem in a manner that it becomes a cyclical problem. We have not been able to transcend this problem. That is why we are bringing a new policy of urban renewal. For example, in the case of Garki, you can sell Garki to a private sector. The private investor would now go and settle them within the city or within the territory. That is marrying integration with urban renewal rather than outright resettlement somewhere. We don't have money and we don't capture their sensibilities, yearnings and aspirations. But this thing takes time to mature. When I went to Lebanon, I saw how an area was resettled ,and today if you see it you won't believe it. There are many foreigners that are ready to come because of the housing glut in Europe.Here, we have the opportunity. We will take the opportunity of the housing glut of Europe to develop Abuja because this is the only place where property is moving, not even Dubai. We will take Abuja to a level we never even imagine. The most important thing is to unbundle Abuja within our own fiscal outlay and masterplan, within our own land administration and within the concept of our own business initiative. We have a road map of these areas. I have touched just the surface so that you can see what we are trying to do and where we want to go. We will generate wealth and create employment at the same time. We will provide services and affordable housing within the territory.
Q. What about parks and recreation centres?
The FCT is large. We have a big problem with parks and recreation centres because everybody knows that parks and recreation centres all over the world are for recreation and they normally open for certain hours. Because they are not supposed to be restaurants only, or night clubs , that's why we are building the Abuja town centre with other groups and, of course, to make sure we look at our urban original planning to provide areas for indoor recreation, not the urban recreation that parks provide.Then, it will add to our insecurity because when they are open at odd hours, hoodlums, criminals, hooligans and charlatans normally find safe havens in them. We always exercise restraints not to allow people, but when people practise impunity, we have to practise enforcement, and, of course that will come with a little pain. Soon, we are going to advertise that all the parks and recreation areas of the FCT will come for what we call recertification so that they will be reinspected to be audited to make sure they are okay.
What are you doing about transportation?
I want FCT buses and I told you BRT is not synonymous with Bala. AMTCO is not synonymous with Bala. Somebody is taking over Abuja Municipal Transport Company and we brought it into our statutory budget to give subsidy so that it will be sustainable. It will certainly not be like El-Rufai's which was casual and ad-hoc just to gain some kind of good marks from the public. Ours is to bring service that is permanent, sustainable and institutionalized not personalized. Somebody asked about the issue of commercial taxis. What are we going to do with the commercial taxis? We are not just coming with a sledge hammer to start beating them off the road. We have invited an association to participate in our licensing taxi regime. Some Americans are bringing some, but they are free to come in as an association and participate and we will regulate them. Certainly we will not condone the rickety vehicles that are always breaking down on the road. We will establish a structure whereby they will get these cars almost free. They will get the cars without interest and they will be paying the money and we will service the interest for them. We are not buying cars as a government; we are partnering private investors.
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Authorities say a 67-year-old woman from Ecuador has drowned while vacationing on Hilton Head Island.
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The wide net federal investigators are casting to build a fraud and doping case against seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and his business associates became more apparent this week when Armstrong's former teammate, Frankie Andreu, and his wife, Betsy, confirmed that they have been cooperating with lead Food and Drug Administration agent Jeff Novitzky.
Novitzky interviewed the Andreus and asked them to provide certain documents and recordings, which they voluntarily turned over. They have not received a subpoena, either for documents or for testimony before the grand jury currently hearing evidence in Los Angeles.
The Andreus' relationship with Armstrong began in the early 1990s when Frankie Andreu rode and roomed with him on the Motorola team. The friendship continued through Armstrong's illness, his comeback and his first two Tour de France victories, but later tapered off and soured.
Andreu raced for the U.S. Postal Service team from 1998 to 2000 and later admitted using the banned blood booster EPO during the 1999 season. His experiences on the team are surely of interest to Novitzky even though Andreu did not overlap with Floyd Landis, whose detailed allegations concerning systemic doping at Postal from 2002 to 2004 triggered the government's concerted scrutiny of that organization. Betsy Andreu has been outspoken in recent years in assailing Armstrong's credibility.
How might the Andreus' knowledge -- some of it relating to events of 10 or 15 years ago -- fit into Novitzky's case? Neither the agent nor anyone directly involved on the investigative side is talking, and the couple declined to go into specifics.
The answer may begin with, but is not limited to, the much-discussed "hospital room incident" in October 1996, when Armstrong was recovering from surgery for testicular cancer that had spread to his brain.
To recap, the Andreus were among a group of friends who visited Armstrong at the Indiana University hospital when the cyclist's prognosis and his career prospects were uncertain. The Andreus say that two doctors entered the room and asked Armstrong questions, including whether he had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. According to the Andreus, he ticked off a list that included steroids, human growth hormone, cortisone and EPO.
The episode was first reported publicly in a 2004 book co-written by journalists David Walsh and Pierre Ballester, "L.A. Confidentiel," which was only published in French. The book came to the notice of SCA Promotions, a Texas insurance company that had signed a contract with the Postal team's ownership to pay Armstrong a $5 million bonus if he won a record-breaking sixth Tour. The hospital room incident, along with other allegations against Armstrong, prompted the company's refusal to pay the bonus.
Armstrong sued, and the case went to arbitration. The Andreus gave depositions under oath about what they had seen and heard. Armstrong testified that the conversation they described never took place. His supervising physician, Dr. Craig Nichols, signed an affidavit stating that he had not asked Armstrong the questions recounted by the Andreus and that he could find no reference to the subject in Armstrong's medical records. The Andreus could not identify the doctors who came into the room but said Nichols was not one of them.
Another person present in the hospital room was Armstrong's friend Stephanie McIlvain, a representative for Oakley Inc., one of Armstrong's longtime sponsors. Betsy Andreu has said that in private conversations afterward, McIlvain acknowledged hearing the same thing she had.
In 2004, three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond, who had by then publicly cast doubt on the legitimacy of Armstrong's performances, phoned McIlvain and recorded the call without her knowledge. He elicited what seemed to be corroboration of the Andreus' recollection of the hospital room incident. "I'm not going to lie," McIlvain told LeMond. "You know, I was in that room. I heard it." However, McIlvain, the only other witness asked about the incident under oath, testified that she remembered being in the room but did not recall the conversation about drugs.
The case was settled in Armstrong's favor before the arbitrators ruled, but the disputed incident has never stopped reverberating. Testimony in the SCA case was the subject of in-depth reports by several large media outlets. In the years since the case was resolved, Armstrong and the Andreus have staunchly held to their statements. According to Betsy Andreu, McIlvain continued to call her, and her voice mail messages are among the materials Novitzky requested.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that McIlvain had refused to speak with Novitzky and had received a subpoena. Her attorney, Tom Beinart, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Armstrong's longtime personal attorney, Tim Herman, told National Public Radio in 2006 that the Andreus might have been confused about a discussion of Armstrong's medical treatment at that time, which included EPO and steroids to counter the toxic effects of chemotherapy. (Betsy Andreu testified that she knew Armstrong's treatment included EPO, but insists she did not confuse the issues.) Armstrong attorney and public relations liaison Mark Fabiani repeated that explanation this week. However, Armstrong testified in the SCA case that no discussion of his medical treatment took place in front of his visitors on that day, adding that he wouldn't have answered questions from doctors he didn't know with visitors present. Armstrong's lawyers say the versions will never be reconciled and contend the incident simply never happened.
Asked to comment on the Andreus' involvement in the investigation, Fabiani said in an e-mailed response that the hospital room incident was "a very old story that was long ago disproved by Lance's doctors, by medical records, and by everyone else in the room that day. The fact that this ancient piece of fiction is now being rehashed shows that the motorboat for this taxpayer-money-wasting FDA fishing expedition is already running on fumes." He and Armstrong's lead criminal lawyer, Bryan Daly, have both repeatedly questioned whether the government investigation is appropriate.
The Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal trade publication, reported Thursday that Armstrong's legal team had met with U.S. attorneys earlier this week to discuss the case. Neither side would divulge details of the meeting, and such contact is not uncommon in a high-profile investigation.
The hospital room incident and the subsequent narrative it has created are dramatic flashpoints, but as ESPN legal analyst Roger Cossack pointed out, "Certainly, anything [Armstrong] did in 1996, the statute of limitations would have run out no matter what it is, except for murder." Novitzky might have some professional curiosity in what Armstrong said 14 years ago, but it's likely that he is more focused on more recent events, namely, whether Armstrong and McIlvain testified truthfully in the SCA case. Documents from that case were subpoenaed by federal investigators in July.
In an e-mailed statement, Betsy Andreu called herself and her husband "two small pieces of this puzzle," and added: "The money spent by the government to stop fraud in sports is miniscule in comparison to the money being made by the athletes committing the fraud. The investigation is a good thing for those of us who want clean sport -- not just for the athlete who wants to compete clean but especially for the youth who partake in it."
Doping in and of itself is low on the totem pole of federal offenses. Blood transfusions done for doping purposes -- which figure significantly into Landis' allegations about what went on at Postal -- are not illegal, although they are a performance-enhancing technique banned under international anti-doping rules for Olympic sports. Reading the few smoke signals that have risen from the investigation indicates that the law enforcement officials running it are endeavoring to present a case supporting more serious charges of fraud or conspiracy. The widening scope of Novitzky's inquiry shows how complex and challenging that may be.
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I definitely want to do some riding while we are in the UK. I had originally planned to rent near London, and ride to the ferry and on IOM during the race week. If the race course is closed a lot because of tourist crashes in the evening, and closed for the race during the day, it may not be worth the huge expense to have a bike for the whole race week (parked at the hotel). I may try to rent on IOM just for a couple of days, or I may rent for a couple of days near London. I have about a year to decide.
I don't recall such a huge problem with travelling around during TT fortnight. Of course it's busy,,,but any world festival like this is. During the actual race and practice sessions where the course is not open to regular traffic, as long as you park yourself, your bike, or car outside the course, and have not found a parking area where there are no exit roads out of your area, you are free to travel to different viewing areas while the racing/practice sessions are happening. If you park inside the perimeter of the course, then you are stuck until the sessions are over, sometimes 8 hours.
When I did the TT in 1994, I rented a bike in London [Scootabout bike rentals, think they're closed now], and took 4 days riding up through West couintry and Wales before reaching Heysham on the Wed morning during practice week.
I do remember there is an issue of those riding bikes from the continent getting into head on crashes because they started riding on the right instead of the left. That's the biggest concern for safety honestly. Mad Sunday was indeed mad back then, but at least everyone was going in the same direction. I remember 3 fatalities in Mad Sunday '94.
IMO, going to the Isle of Man TT or the Manx Grand Prix without a bike is a total failure. You must immerse yourself in the theme of the events, and bikes simply rule the house during these times.
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Adding concern was the fact that the most common class of antibiotics prescribed in the study was fluoroquinolones, a class of drugs often associated with increased rates of resistance. Overuse of these drugs could weaken their efficacy, threatening their effectiveness against these and other emerging infections.
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