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...Apparently it was The Autobiography of Malcolm X that inspired Walker to convert to Islam. He talked with his parents about his plans. Frank Lindh, now a lawyer with Pacific Gas & Electric, was accepting. Marilyn Walker had reservations. "She was concerned," says Marilyn's friend Stephanie Hendricks. "You have a 16-year-old kid who gets involved in any kind of religion in a passionate way, and you're going to want to know more about it, right...
...seventh detainee is Moroccan and the eighth, Luis José Galán González, is a Spaniard from a wealthy family and a convert to what investigators call a particularly fanatic style of Islam. Last July he went to Indonesia to train with the group Lashkar Jihad, which investigators say is supported by and allied to al-Qaeda. When he was arrested police found pictures of him dressed as a mujahedin with a shotgun in one hand and a pistol in the other. "When we put him in jail, he said he wanted two things: a toothbrush...
...baby can enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life...
...Swiss authorities are urging the country's 7.2 million residents to convert these spaces back into actual bomb shelters - complete with a 14-day supply of bottled water and canned food. And certainly, the design requirements of these structures should reassure anyone concerned about the threat of terrorism...
...Harvard finished with four players in double figures, though Prasse-Freeman’s four first-half three-pointers would be the only long-range shots the Crimson could convert...