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...curious thing about the al-Halabi case is that the military had concerns about him before he was sent to Cuba. The Air Force began watching him shortly before he shipped out because of reports of suspicious activity while he was at Travis. He remained under surveillance at Guantanamo. Air Force officials offered no explanation for his being allowed to serve in such a sensitive post despite being under suspicion...
...accusations against Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Muslims are curious. Don't Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalists claim that the U.S. war on terrorism is really a war against Islam? If the U.S. continues on its present path, even more people will agree with the theory that the target is Islam, not terrorists. If we ask Saudi Arabia to change its religious beliefs, maybe we should ask a few fundamentalist groups in the U.S. to alter theirs too. After all, some of their leaders constantly attack Islam (and Catholicism). Their hateful preaching might make a few Wahhabis blush...
Pedestals always work in a pinch. Heels, as I point out in The Pornography of Meat, damage the spine. I’m interested in getting humans to stop viewing nonhuman animals as theirs to use, eat, experiment upon or wear. It’s curious how dependent humans are for their self-conceptualization on the existence of animals as the opposite, as lower, as the dominated ones, as the edible ones...
...Soon are researchers competing for funds from a limited number of sources and can hardly be blamed for accepting oil money. But regardless of whether the technical objections raised by other scientists are really legitimate, a small hitch remains. Baliunas and Soon’s findings bear a curious resemblance to their financial backers’ probable agenda. After all, look at what the oil industry got: A paper that can be used to discredit the half-century of evidence climatologists have accumulated suggesting that human industrial pollution is quickly warming the earth. And, even better, since the study calls...
...Tampico, Ill., a 9-year-old Dutch Reagan, along with a friend, found a shotgun belonging to the boy's father and blew a hole in the family's ceiling. We pore over our parents' childhoods when we are past our own and have grown old enough to be curious...