Word: cave
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Between classes, the girls passed around magazines with bin Laden photographs. Some swooned over his "soulful" eyes. They saw him as a man who had walked away from an air-conditioned palace to live in a cave in Afghanistan and avenge the wrongs committed against Muslims. "He was our Robin Hood," says Sana. "Some of my friends defended bin Laden because they thought he carried out the bombings, while others defended him because they thought the U.S. was accusing him unjustly." Sana belonged to the latter camp...
...Visually, the book is stunning. Going through it, you come to realize how much sense it makes to have it printed in the same way as a western art course book. McKean hits all the styles, from fuzzy iconic images like cave drawings, to representational pen and ink, to painterly abstract expressionism, up through photography and digital effects. But most important, it's all done at the service of a linear narrative, the definition of comix. When the painter meets a woman at a bar the graphics are laid out in clear rows of careful panels. As the couple relaxes...
...penetrate al-Qaeda and the al-Qaeda leadership." Nobody pretends that such an exercise would have been easy. Says a counterterrorism official: "Where are you going to find a person loyal to the U.S. who's willing to eat dung beetles and sleep on the ground in a cave for two or three years? You don't find people willing to do that who also speak fluent Pashtu or Arabic...
Trapped in a cave in Afghanistan, Lindh and his comrades had no way to escape, he told Abdelwahab Hassan. But they awoke one morning to the divine comfort of a Taliban soldier's dream, which promised that somebody would come for them in seven days. They counted each setting sun until, just as foretold, a rescuer freed them. Another time, while learning from al-Qaeda terrorists how to fire shoulder-launched grenades and ignite Molotov cocktails for the glory of jihad, Lindh witnessed the shooting death of a fellow believer. The smell of musk filled the air, and he recalled...
While their hardiness was a big surprise, the microbes' ability to eat hydrogen, sulfur, manganese and other chemicals--a process known as known as chemoautotrophy--was a revelation. Until then, all living systems were thought to depend on photosynthesis, using sunlight as a primary energy source. (Even cave-dwelling or deep-water creatures who never see the sun eat organic matter that ultimately originates from photosynthesis.) But if life could thrive without even indirect contact with sunlight, the amount of potentially habitable real estate on the planet would expand considerably...