This requires a period of ten years without seizures while off medications.
You would think that media commentators would welcome the Special Forces and FBI's neat -- and casualty-free -- seizure of Ahmed Abu Khatalla off Tripoli's streets and onto a U.S. Navy ship and then a plane bound for an American courtroom.
Complaints from Louis Vuitton, a luxury-goods firm, for example, led to nearly 9,500 seizures of knock-offs last year, 31% more than in 2008.
After the September seizure of Sana'a, Saudi Arabia cut off desperately needed funding for the central government.
Two drug busts in November, netting 712kg of the stuff, closed a record year for heroin seizures off the coast of Kenya.
The key figure in the early part of the story is Grotius, who, in contriving a legal justification for an obviously brigandly Dutch seizure of Portuguese goods off Singapore, eventually produced a volume, "On the Laws of War and Peace," published in 1625, that Hathaway and Shapiro say became "the textbook on the laws of war".
Even Iran's mysterious seizure of a container ship off its coast on April 28th has done little to disrupt the flow.
Iran's seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979 caused the US to break off diplomatic relations.
But for Mr. Schramm, who had entered the hospital just two days earlier after a seizure, digoxin was off-limits because he had a pacemaker.
"But can you do that to just a few neurons and trigger the same thing?" Says W. Allen Hauser, professor of neurology at Columbia University: "Anything that would give you clues to things that would turn off seizures readily could be applicable for a lot of things.
