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...ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Zayed is responsible for his nation’s poor human rights record, which includes, according to Amnesty International, corporal punishment of dissidents, lack of democracy, and the use of child slave labor in the camel racing industry. Zayed also funds the “Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up,” the major think tank of the Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures...
Born in 1920, Angell is now one of those senior citizens, old enough to have bumped into a retired Babe Ruth on the street wearing his (Ruth's, that is) signature camel's-hair coat and cap. But in the autobiographical chapter "Early Innings," Angell allows us to glimpse the moment when he, a control-challenged junior-high screwball hurler, gave up his big-league dreams and "took up smoking and irony in self-defense." He must have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony...
...Bedouin do not have many riches, and sheep and camel herds account for what they do have. Even by Bedouin standards the people I saw are impoverished. Of the hundred family groupings we passed by, I did not see one flock of sheep with more than 20 animals, and even those small flocks usually had six shepherds watching over them...
...Pakistani frontier posts weren't in much better shape. An officer told me he had heard on the radio that the Americans were trying to capture bin Laden, but he wasn't able to help much. Even if bin Laden were to ride past on a camel, his soldiers could not catch him because they had no vehicles. Some posts have just a single hand-cranked army telephone...
Still, reformers are finding that it isn't easy for colleges to kick the smoking habit. Throughout the '90s, cigarette marketing was so ubiquitous on campuses that you would have thought Joe Camel had tenure. From 1993 to '99, tobacco use among students increased 28%. Alarmed by the rising rate of student smokers and armed with a Harvard study showing that students living in nonsmoking dorms are less likely to pick up the addiction, college officials turned to antitobacco advocates for help in drafting new policies. The number of state universities with smoke-free dorms has doubled, to 26, over...