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BAGHDAD — Calling someone the “son of a shoe” is one of the worst insults in Iraq . But the lowly shoe and the Iraqi who threw both of his at President Bush, with widely admired aim, were embraced around the Arab world on Monday as symbols of rage at a still unpopular war . In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10 million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the world’s most famous pair of black dress shoes . A daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, reportedly awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist, a medal of courage . In the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, people calling for an immediate American withdrawal removed their footwear and placed the shoes and sandals at the end of long poles, waving them high in the air. And in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, people threw their shoes at a passing American convoy. In street-corner conversations, on television and in Internet chat rooms, the subje...

BLOOD DONATION There is no substitute of human blood, it can't be manufactured in a factory nor can animal blood be transfused to human beings . Therefore to provide safe quality blood, the blood donor service must have healthy, responsive and motivated voluntary blood donors to meet the country's need (2% of the population), aging between 16 to 60 years, weighing 50 KG or above and having no history of transfusion transmitted diseases, drug addiction or any major ailment in the recent past. The blood volume in men and woman are 80ml/kg and 70ml/kg respectively of their body weights i.e. 5000 to 6000 ml of circulating blood. The volume in circulation required for routine work is 50ml/kg of body weight for both men and women. Excess blood possessed by men and women are 30ml/kg and 20ml/kg of their body weights. From the excess blood 7-8ml/kg i.e. around 350 to 450 ml can be safely donated without any side effects or weakness. The blood donation process starts with...