Word: convertibles
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...coal, and production has nearly tripled in the past five years to meet soaring demand. High oil prices have added to coal's attraction. Beijing has plans to open 35 to 40 coal-powered electricity-generating plants annually in the next few years and to build two plants to convert coal to liquid fuel...
...Still, Boothe says she was “at first hesitant” about the decision to convert. It took a summer of traveling throughout Singapore, Italy and the U.S., along with interaction with other Baha’i communities, to realize that she wanted to declare. “I consciously recognized that as I was traveling abroad over the summer, focusing on the Baha’i writings and asking myself, ‘is this true...
...Iraq. Last November an adviser to the Saudi government warned that if the U.S. withdrew its troops, the monarchy would arm Sunni insurgents. Saudi clerics have stepped up their denunciation of Shi'ites as heretics. And King Abdullah has endorsed toxic rumors that Shi'ites are trying to convert Sunnis to their faith...
...history, but these differences are small--they agree on most of the important tenets of the faith, like the infallibility of the Koran, and they venerate the Prophet Muhammad. Despite the claims by some Arab commentators, there is no evidence that Iraq's Shi'ite extremists are trying to convert Sunnis, or vice versa. For Iraqi fighters on both sides, "their sect is nothing more than a uniform, a convenient way to tell friend from enemy," says Ghanim Hashem Kudhir, who teaches modern Islamic history at Baghdad's Mustansiriya University. "What binds them is not religion but common historical experience...
...world as “The Scholar,” Barrett strives to illuminate the role of the scholarly Muslim in American society. The chapter does not even begin with Abou El Fadl’s own name. It starts with an anecdote about an Asian American convert to Islam named Grace Song. Disillusioned with her new religion, she listens to some of Abou El Fadl’s writings on tape while driving in her car and feels her faith restored on an intellectual level. A connection is made and they eventually meet and marry. Rather than opening...