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Maybe, but to not criticize Jackson merely because he is Black is also, dare we say, racism...
...inhumanly brave. Well, strike the almost. Manny is a robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing to leak and let gas through. Built for $2.35 million by Battelle's Pacific...
...long ago, parents traveling with small children smuggled them into luxury hotels like illegal pets. Most did not dare venture into the dining rooms for fear of waiters who sneered, diners who scowled and menus with nothing resembling a hamburger in any language. But now the baby boomers, that bulky and insistent generation, are traveling with their youngsters in tow -- and once more transforming an industry that is intent on meeting their every need. The travel business will never be the same again...
...imprisoned. Meanwhile, the secretary endured other kinds of hell. "One New Year's Eve," Medvedev recounts, "Stalin rolled pieces of paper into little tubes and put them on Poskrebyshev's fingers. Then he lit them in place of New Year's candles. Poskrebyshev writhed in pain but did not dare take them...
Soldiers who dare to intervene have been threatened and harassed -- or merely ignored. When dozens of troops attempted to block vigilantes leaving Kiryat Arba, the settlers slipped out on foot or by back roads. Last week police arrested Hebron resident David Axelrod on charges of physically assaulting soldiers, but the army has generally been frustrated in its efforts to keep the vengeful settlers under control. Major General Amram Mitzna, who heads Israeli forces in the West Bank, has asked the government to "help us by stopping the settlers' incitement against the Israel Defense Forces." He warns...