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...practice has its defenders, and Straus himself admits, with chagrin in his voice, that he spanked his own son. In the 1990s, the American Academy of Pediatrics underwent a bitter fight before finally declaring in 1998 that "corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects...
...grand-opening celebration for Gardenview Estates, a $221 million-plus public-housing development on Detroit's northwest side, activist Leila Gregory, 51, took the podium and gushed about all the local celebrities in attendance. There was John Conyers Jr., the veteran Congressman ("You're an American idol!"), and Greg Mathis, the popular TV judge ("I just love him!"). When Gregory turned to Dave Bing - the NBA legend, steel magnate and mayor of Detroit - her demeanor changed. All she could manage was a curt "Hello, Mr. Mayor" before moving on. Not that it mattered much to Bing. A minute later...
...other hand, If Zazi is an al-Qaeda operative, it would challenge the belief that Osama bin Laden and his cohort, on the run from American drones, no longer have the ability to strike on the U.S. mainland. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...long-held view among some counterterrorism experts is that American society does such a good job of absorbing immigrants that there's none of the ghettoization of poor Muslim communities commonly seen in Europe. Also, since the U.S. gives all newcomers the opportunity to get rich, there are none of the resentments that fester among young, unemployed Muslims in European cities. But some experts are beginning to question those assumptions. "We've had the complacency about our ability to integrate minorities into our society," says Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan. "We've looked at what...
...There have been other signs that jihadi organizations are reaching out to disaffected young Muslims in the U.S. Consider the Somali-American youths who flew from Minneapolis to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda-linked militia that runs much of Somalia. If it turns out that it was al-Qaeda (or the Taliban) that reached out to Zazi and his associates - and not the other way around - then it would suggest that the U.S. is vulnerable to attacks from within...