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...such activities real? A top commander of the group shown in the first tape says the training camps are crucial to the insurgency, given that most recruits lack basic knowledge of the weaponry used against U.S. forces. The commander, who asked to be identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Lina, says the training video was made "to show the other resistance groups in Iraq that we have grown and developed." He says training camps are located in "places in Iraq the Americans do not control, nor can they see"--an assertion a Pentagon official does not dispute. "I know...
Lost in all the ideological to-and-fro was any sense of what exactly the CDC study found and what it actually means. Basically, its authors concluded from three recent health surveys of the U.S. population that being obese--as well as being underweight--is associated with a greater number of deaths than being of normal weight. Researchers will argue about just how much the results are skewed by thin people who are losing weight because they are dying, but the basic findings are undisputed...
...family we had a TV when I was 5 years old in 1948. We started watching it a lot. We watched Howdy Doody and the Lone Ranger. That was the stuff that was deeply imprinted on me. Little Lulu and Donald Duck and Felix the Cat - real basic popular culture that was fed to kids. My parents had no culture. Not what's considered a culture with a capital...
...which pinpoints a lack of formal property rights as a main culprit behind the developing world’s stagnation. Like his compatriot, Vargas Llosa heaps praise on the ingenuity of Latin America’s poorest, especially the shantytown residents who have organized to provide basic services to the disenfranchised. Still, he considers them incapable of generating the sort of structural change key to breaking the region’s cycle of misery...
...interview after the event, Shakir said, “Without a basic understanding of what a divestment actually entailed, no discussion or debate can really take place...