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I am 2 hours post-op surgery. The last words I heard before going under anesthesia were: "Quit Smoking"..from the anestheseologist. The first words I heard coming out of the anesthesia, again by the anestheseologist, were "QUIT SMOKING". Please...no pros\cons of smoking. Perhaps I'm too close to the surgery but, smoking now dries out my mouth, taste absolutely rotten and gives me a headache. I now have very little desire to smoke. Please, no comments about no desire. I don't think what the anestheseologist did is right. It's not his call to get me to quit smoking, it's mine...if and when...

TEHRAN: Iran’s Defence Minister Mostafa Mohamed Najjar yesterday expressed the military’s readiness to respond in case of US attack over its nuclear programme. “The Islamic republic’s armed forces are fully ready to make sacrifices for the sake of religion, homeland and materialisation of the supreme leader’s commands,” Najjar was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA. The defence minister also stressed that Iran considers “psychological wars and propaganda tricks inefficient.” Last Sunday, the spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shunned any threat or pressure to stop the country’s controversial nuclear activities by Western powers that are convinced Iran is...

"Since 1999, we saw the departure of the last remaining Jewish family out of Kosovo. Why is Washington shy at actually doing something to protect the minorities in Kosovo? Back in February, we spoke with Julia Gorin, a contributing commentator for the Jewish World Report and Front Page Magazine, about Kosovo and its links with the Islamic terror. The conversation eventually lended a front page cover for the Belgrade independent Weekly Telegraph, abut here we are transmitting it in its original, long format. Why does the US have an ambiguous position on the Kosovo status: it publicly supports a negotiated...