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...gala ceremony will feature “The Wedding Complex,” a farcical mini-opera about scientists planning a wedding—scientifically, of course—and culminating in a real, 60-second wedding that will join Will Stefanov and Lisa Danielson, two Arizona State University geologists, in holy matrimony. The actual wedding will only complicate the Ig Nobel ceremony, thereby reinforcing the complexity theme...
...preppy.") For the most part, they had learned American ways well after being here for so long: one of them, Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon, lived in the U.S. as long ago as 1990, when he took an English course in Arizona...
...truisims of the modern airline industry that the U.S. trains many of the world's pilots. The backs of international pilot magazines are crammed with ads for flight schools in Florida, California and Arizona. "Three hundred sunny days a year," some of them proclaim, an enticement to students in a hurry to build up the hundreds of hours of basic prop-plane time needed before moving on to jet training and potentially lucrative careers. If Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. draw the world's future biochemists, these small four- and five-plane aviation schools attract the globe's future pilots...
...Christianity at its core and, once upon a time, the Saracen as its target. Today, in the midst of so much confusion, it remains to be seen to what degree the recent murders (or robberies gone bad) of a Pakistani-born Muslim in Texas, an Indian Sikh in Arizona, and an Egyptian Christian in California are part of a crusade that is already spilling out of the hands of its would-be commander- in-chief. The terror of those who hate us can spin into the terror of those who love us, and in both cases we, understood...
Since that Tuesday, news of hate crimes poured in from across all 50 states. While a Sikh was killed in Arizona, shot to death presumably for resembling a Muslim, many other Muslim and Arab Americans were physically and verbally harassed. Innumerable others decided to simply stay home rather than risk a world that had suddenly and immediately turned hostile...