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...real, they can't be typical. If they are typical, this can't be America--unless, perhaps, you are Rush Limbaugh, who invited listeners to identify with the frustration the soldiers must have felt being shot at by the ungrateful Iraqi people; so naturally they felt the need to "blow some steam off," to "have a good time." Others noted that there was less outcry when Saddam was doing the torturing, or argued that "they would do the same to us" if they had a chance. When we are reduced to insisting that our depravity...
...cushioning levels automatically during a jog. With every step, a magnetic sensor in the heel measures the force exerted by a runner and transmits this data to a microprocessor under the arch. The chip drives a tiny cable system that adjusts the heel, which gets harder to cushion the blow when your tired feet are pounding the pavement and then softer to relax them while walking across the lawn. The shoe might also relax your wallet: the Adidas 1 will retail at $250 when it hits stores this winter. --By Sean Gregory
...This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... You ever heard of a need to blow some steam off?" RUSH LIMBAUGH, radio talk-show host, on the behavior of the U.S. soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners...
...groups are living in New Zealand, says Foreign Minister Goff, but nor is it likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim community has "nothing for terrorists...
...give the seven remaining guards a last paycheck and a pink-slip, especially since during the negotiations in the summer the university had told us no severance packages would be brought forward again. I told the University that the union wanted to enter into impact bargaining to mitigate the blow to our members. Both sides agreed to talk a deal...