The protests are jarring to incoming patients. But they do little, if anything, to affect Allison Hile, the clinic’s director of information and education. “I am so proud of what we do,” says Hile, who has been counseling patients for 28 years. Hile has, after all, seen much worse at her clinic. She remembers the wreckage the day after it was bombed in 1982—the blast destroyed a third of the facility’s physical plant....

By Mohammad’s account, much has changed since it became clear the United States would attack. Al Qaeda’s nerve center in Afghanistan is in disarray, suggesting that if the terror network is to continue to be a threat, it may be up to its “sleeper” cells worldwide. Mohammad said he believes morale is low among Al Qaeda’s Taliban hosts. At least half of the 50 pilots and technicians in his unit have deserted, he said....

Elsewhere in Ohio, Bush did not get Felicia Hill’s vote in 2004, but his campaign caused her to pause before voting for John Kerry, which is portentous. An African-American married to a unionized GM worker, Hill voted for Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton twice and Al Gore. But as a church member in a golfing community in a growing suburb where her children attend private schools, she was targeted for GOP courtship....

Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, one of very few women writing serious novels in Arabic, has set a small masterpiece in the psychological confines of the modern harem. With its frank sexuality and explicit accounts of feminine alienation, B_Women of Sand and Myrrh_b (280 pages. Anchor Books. Paper, $9) was banned in gulf countries when it appeared in 1988. But since Catherine Cobham’s elegant translation was published in England three years ago, it has had a growing audience outside the Arab world and is now available in the United States....

Karmazin likes to play a business-suited version of a radio shock jock, and indeed Howard Stern and Don Imus work for him. Which is one reason that this week, shareholders are expected to approve the acquisition of Karmazin’s Infinity Broadcasting Co. by Westinghouse/CBS for $4.9 billion, creating the biggest radio company since people huddled around their sets listening to FDR. And Karmazin is the key player in a postmodern drama: a big media corporation is finally making radio a front-burner part of its strategy....

Now, there’s hope. In a paper published last week in the British journal Lancet, researchers showed that annual screening with a high-tech imaging technique called low-radiation-dose computed tomography–low-dose CT–detected cancer far earlier than a chest X-ray. The researchers looked at 1,000 men and women over 60 who had smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years. CT spotted suspicious nodules in 233 people; X-ray caught them in only 68....

The account left Elian’s Miami relatives angry and flabbergasted. The boy’s great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez has filed a petition to grant the first grader political asylum in the United States; he wants to keep the boy in Miami against the wishes of Elian’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. “It’s embarrassing,” said Armando Gutierrez, a spokesman for the Miami family. “I came from Cuba when I was 11 years old, and my grandmother never measured me in that way....

After coming to America as an eighth grader and stops in Louisiana, Virginia and finally, in Canada, it appears Maker has begun to focus more on finding his collegiate home as well. MORE: How did these new coaches fare during recruiting in 2015? Last week, Maker admitted he was focused on four schools: Kansas, Notre Dame, Arizona State and Indiana. He said that he will visit all four this winter....

Then, last Thursday, on a day like so many in Baghdad, two mortars and a car bomb ripped through an apartment building and crowded marketplace in Kerrada, a largely Shia neighborhood, killing 32 and wounding 150 more. Enraged residents screamed, spitting and shoving at the Iraqi police who, as is so often the case, had failed to prevent the attack. So it goes in Iraq: car bomb, death squad raid, suicide bomb, rocket attack—the litany of sectarian violence has become so familiar and so gruesome that often the most egregious acts of Iraqi bloodshed barely merit more than two lines at the bottom of a wire service story....

During sexual intercourse, the vagina lengthens, widens and engorges with blood as it prepares to accept the penis. Additionally, the vagina serves as a passageway for cervical mucus, menstrual fluid and other secretions out of the body. During childbirth, the baby is pushed from the uterus out of the body, also through the vaginal canal. Self-Cleaning Mechanism It is important to know that the vagina is self-cleaning. Some women feel the need to douche or clean the vagina using sprays or deodorants....

The former AC Milan coach has been out of the game since leaving Bayern Munich last September, but he replaced Maurizio Sarri on Wednesday after Napoli were beaten to the Scudetto by Juventus. Ancelotti, who won the Serie A title once as Milan coach, is hopeful that his “knowledge and experience” can help Napoli topple seven-time defending champions Juve. “I’m very happy to return to my country and to one of the greatest teams in Italy,” he said in a statement on his official website....

“Something like this happens and you’re like, do I just ignore it or do I want to say something about it?” Ball said during Thursday morning’s broadcast of her news program Rising with The Hill’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. Ball told her cohost she decided to address it on the air because not everyone has the ability she has to set the record straight, saying, “I don’t want to feel like he can just slime whoever he wants and get away with it with no accountability....

The World Bank had estimated that a successful agreement to lower tariffs would have raised global GDP by $500 billion by 2015, the bulk of that increase in wealth going to poor countries. That is why the obstructionist tactics of the big developing countries–Brazil, India, Nigeria–were so self-defeating. At the end of the day, any deal that reduces rich-country tariffs gives the poor some access to those huge markets. In the last global trade talks, signed in Uruguay in 1994, rich countries cut their tariffs by 20 percent....

Thanks to all-night sessions and Koh’s lightning-fast gavel, 178 nations agreed on an 800-page blueprint for environmentally benign development in poor countries. They cranked out a nonbinding declaration of ecoprinciples and mustered enough signatures to pass into international law pacts to preserve the planet’s species and to stave off global warming (NEWSWEEK, June 15). For the first time in history, nations vowed to take into account global environmental concerns when making internal economic decisions....

Milan continued their impressive work in the transfer market with the capture of Portuguese star Silva from Porto for a reported fee of €38million. Milan take spending to €99m with Silva Silva joins Mateo Musacchio, Ricardo Rodriguez and Franck Kessie through the door at San Siro and the 21-year-old striker has set his sights on the Scudetto, which Juve have won for the past six successive seasons. “I chose Milan because they’re a club with great history in the Champions League, I’m happy that Milan wanted me and I couldn’t pass up this opportunity,” Silva told Milan TV after the Italian giants finished sixth last season....

And the Pirates would obviously like to keep their marquee player. MORE: Scenes from spring training | Is Tommy John a Hall of Famer? But as the five-time All-Star enters the fifth year of a six-year, $51.5 million contract he signed in March 2012, can the small-market team and star center fielder agree to a long-term deal that will keep both sides happy? Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington told ESPN Monday “there’s a lot that goes into that equation....

Sunday’s final of the grass-court event brought together two players who have both made high-profile coaching hires in recent weeks, Murray reunited with Ivan Lendl after Raonic had added three-time Wimbledon singles champion John McEnroe to his team. PHOTOS: Best of the U.S. Open | Stanley Cup parade McEnroe has touted Raonic as a potential winner at SW19 and the Canadian certainly looked capable of such a feat as he seized control of the match....

The 35-year-old survived a comeback from the Italian to win across five sets 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-7(7) 7-6(6) in four hours and 49 minutes to set up a second-round contest with either Thanasi Kokkinakis or Fabio Fognini. Murray, a five-time Australian Open finalist, hadn’t lost a match from two-sets-to-love up for 18 years and he managed to keep that record intact with a gutsy performance - especially considering Berrettini had won his last nine tiebreaks consecutively....