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...global communications risks swamping cultures and minority languages, little La Gomera has put its tradition where its mouth is. Shaping a finger like the letter U and inserting it to one side of the mouth, the islanders learned to communicate across the hills and valleys of the roughly circular island, 26 km at its widest. There were no roads until 1935, and in the central village...
...attacks on the U.S. [June 28]. Shortly after that news, President Bush said, "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam [Hussein] and al-Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." I am so tired of mindless, circular and arrogant reasoning from this President. It doesn't convince me of anything and leaves me with an empty feeling about the leadership of this country. Tom Bensky San Luis Obispo...
...sources say there's no hard intelligence warning of specific plans by terrorists to launch suicide attacks here like those wreaking havoc in Israel and Iraq. But, says one official, the circular was prompted by "a renewed concern" that fury at the U.S. for its occupation of Iraq or its support of Israel could move some extremists to attempt to bring the war to the American homeland. "At the end the day, it's probably one of the simplest forms of attack, and it's one of the hardest to detect," says one counter-terror veteran...
...differentiate or die--which is why some are jazzing up the old big-box routine. The northeastern Wegmans chain just opened its first store in Virginia, where it is spicing up its prepared-foods sections with daily cooking demonstrations. In Indiana, Marsh opened two stores this winter that have circular layouts. Each store has a central cafe with European-style markets on the perimeter showcasing, for example, artisanal cheeses in one room and baby food and supplies in another. And sticking with the old retail-is-detail adage, Marsh pipes mellow guitar instrumentals not only into the stores but also...
...hands-on approach turned out to be more than the planners bargained for after this reporter cut himself with a circular saw. While the injury turned out to be minor, Safdi says that power tools will likely be off-limits to participants in the future for safety and liability concerns...