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...religious people," he says. "You ask them anything--anything--and they can instantly quote a relevant section from the Koran." Like them, Marwan works Koranic allusions into his speech. He has also embraced the jihadist worldview of one global Islamic state where there is, in Marwan's words, "no alcohol, no music and no Western influences." He concedes that he has not thought deeply about what life might be like in such a state; after all, he doesn't expect to live long enough to experience it. Besides, he says, he fights first for Islam, second to become a "martyr...
...books: Aesop's Fables, the Bible, Shakespeare and especially The Columbian Orator, a popular anthology of speeches for boys. They were athletic, strong and tall: Douglass was about 6 ft., Lincoln 6 ft. 4 in., when the average height for men was 5 ft. 7 in. They refrained from alcohol and tobacco at a time when many politicians "squirted their tobacco juice upon the carpet" and drank on the job. They were ambitious men and had great faith in the moral and technological progress of their nation. And they both called slavery a sin. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing...
...composite of studies [of the homeless] indicates that 35% have schizophrenia and 10% significant clinical depression," writes Dr. Irwin Perr of the Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey. And "some 25% to 50% have alcohol-and drug-abuse problems." Which means that, to be conservative, a majority of the homeless dwell near either psychosis or stupor...
Current estimates are that between 5% and 13% of the U.S. work force abuses drugs other than alcohol. Numerous studies have shown that such abuse means up to three times as many job-related accidents and ten or more times as many sick days. As a result, companies are cracking down...
...careless and fall down shafts; others will be blown up when they stick their drills into holes containing unexploded charges. Most will succumb to what can euphemistically be called the sandhog's life-style, a grimy regimen that scorns the world of paper pushers and blots out feelings with alcohol...