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...once allowed to exist as a counterbalance to the P.L.O. were outlawed as the most serious security problem in the occupied territories. Hamas' appeal is both social and political. With money from Iran and private Arab benefactors in the gulf, the organization runs clinics and kindergartens -- and candidates for chamber of commerce elections. Preaching radical solutions from the mosques, Hamas has rapidly won converts disenchanted with the foibles and failures of the P.L.O. It now claims support from a majority of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and at least 40% of West Bank Arabs...
...reason why the Throne Room, the red chamber where knights are dubbed beneath a plaster frieze of roly-poly figures enacting scenes from the Wars of the Roses, is so curiously ungrand. Not all of that is Blore's fault -- the squat thrones themselves, one with EIIR embroidered on it and the other with P for Philip, were done in 1953 and look Hollywood-Ruritanian, if not suburban. You can't help reflecting on the amount of lobbying from aspirant title seekers that has focused on this red room over the past century...
Doctors soon discovered that even their earlier guarded prognosis had been overly optimistic. The infants' fused liver could be divided, but the twins had one heart. Even worse, it had six chambers instead of the normal four, with a hole in one chamber and blood from the lungs pumping into the wrong side. The doctors recommended to the Lakebergs that Amy and Angela be allowed to die. "We sort of pleaded with them to take the babies off the ventilator," says neonatologist Dr. Jonathan Muraskas at Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Chicago, who tended the twins from their birth...
...Rouge guerrillas had attacked Siem Reap, the city next to the ruins, and the group's guide refused to go near the place. The Mexicans were forced to content themselves with Phnom Penh -- a city whose attractions include the Tuol Sleng Museum, a high school used as a torture chamber and prison during Pol Pot's reign. Tourists who do make it to Angkor Wat are repeatedly reminded to stay on the paths; hundreds of Khmer Rouge land mines are buried around the temples. It is also advisable to give the Kalashnikov-toting militia men "guarding" the complex a dollar...
...enormous bloodred pyramid has been standing for hours in the dripping heat of the Guatemalan jungle. No one moves; every eye stays fixed on the building's summit, where the king, his head adorned with feathers, his scepter a two-headed crocodile, is about to emerge from a sacred chamber with instructions from his long-dead ancestors. The crowd sees nothing of his movements, but it knows the ritual: lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs, the king will take an obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis, and then draw a rope through...