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UNITED STATES Prayer Protest An improvised turban caused a hunger strike at Camp X-Ray, Cuba among suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives. Turbans had been banned, lest they conceal weapons. When one man used a bedsheet to cover his head during prayers, guards ordered it removed. In protest nearly two-thirds of the 300 inmates went on a hunger strike. Most relented when camp commander General Mike Lehnert conceded that they would be allowed turbans and that they would be kept informed about their legal status...
...meals in an organized hunger strike/chant-a-thon Thursday that got rowdy enough to prompt Marine security forces into a ring around the perimeter of the camp - their machine guns pointing in. About two-thirds of the prisoners participated in the protest, which started after two guards physically enforced the no-bedsheet-on-head policy on a prisoner in the middle of his prayers...
...early post-Sept. 11 days and months - buy a car, or you're letting the terrorists win - in a while. But the terrorists never wanted to win this war in the conventional, occupy-the-Capitol sense. They were after changes in U.S. foreign policy, and from the inconsequential (no bedsheet turbans) to the far-reaching (meeting more energy needs at home) they're having a pretty good week...
...head--he wears a helmet to protect his skull--and a warm heart. He sees a boy floating face down in a swimming pool and dives in to save him. Already racked by an inadvertent tragedy, George assigns himself the mission of saving people. Striding through town in a bedsheet cape, sports tights and a helmet, he seems an endearingly preposterous figure. But Nasia is drawn to a man with a quest. "If I ever get in trouble," she says, "will you save my life...
...Indianapolis last month, a boy wearing an angel necklace and felt diaper was found 200 ft. from the main entrance of Community Hospital. His mother had wrapped him in a bedsheet decorated with tiny balls and bats, then left him near a parked car, facing the door. But he was easy to miss in the snowy weather, until a woman went outside to smoke a cigarette. By then, he was dead. If the law were different in Indiana, the mother could have walked a few steps farther and, without fear of prosecution, delivered the baby into the hands...