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...exclusively support Israel. If the Palestinians in refugee camps knew that they had a future as something other than suicide bombers, they would grab the chance. It surely wouldn't be difficult to get the European Union, OPEC and the U.N. to help pay the tab. Ronald W. Birmingham Suffield, Connecticut...
...will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches a game. The move, designed to minimize the chances of seriously injuring a pitcher's elbow or shoulder, was based on research conducted by the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) of Birmingham, Ala. Its studies actually indicated that an even lower number of pitches--75 for children 11 to 12 years old--was ideal...
Paul Moxon, a consultant, designer and printer in Birmingham, Ala., who owns Fameorshame Press, has seen the growth of letterpress printing reflected in the popularity of courses he teaches around the country. Recently, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, both his classes were sold out. Moxon believes designers are attracted to the technique because it allows them to control the entire process and select paper not used in commercial printing jobs--lush sheets with deckle edges and uneven surfaces and such inclusions as bits of leaves or flowers. It's the uniqueness of a letterpress creation that makes...
...that category going to Atlanta, where only 16,000 of the 100,000 evacuees who came have left, versus those who ended up in Houston (150,000 of 250,000), San Antonio (15,000 of 30,000), Baton Rouge (25,000 to 30,000 of 300,000) and Birmingham (1,500 of 20,000), who have either returned to New Orleans to gone elsewhere. The report found that evacuation was an ever-evolving odyssey, as evacuees moved an average of 3.5 times after fleeing Katrina's wrath. Only Baton Rouge and Houston took in more people than Atlanta, with those...
...calm of the aftermath they perceived their own propensity to one day also act tyrannically, so they legislated against themselves. The British government is considering profiling Muslim air passengers in the wake of recent security concerns. Is that justifiable? Have we so quickly forgotten the lessons of the Birmingham Six, imprisoned for 16 years because they were in transit to Ireland carrying mass cards? Is possession of the Koran now to form the same wrong basis for suspicion? 25 years of conflict in Northern Ireland was fueled, not solved, by targeted stigmatization. I.R.A. suspects the Guildford Four and Birmingham...