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Whether a butterfly'swing beat can causea tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But it is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe. An editor's decision--call it feisty or cavalier--to ask Danish cartoonists to depict the Prophet Muhammad has provoked a volcanic reaction, from a Muslim boycott of Danish goods to the torching of two European embassies in Damascus to death threats and lawsuits against newspapers, and even...
...last autumn with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He demurred, making the bulletproof argument that government doesn't control the free press. But it has broken out with new and somewhat mysterious force since a Norwegian periodical reprinted the cartoons on January 10. Arab Ambassadors were recalled from Denmark, protest marches were under way in Kuwait and Damascus, and armed gunmen shut down the office of the European Union in Gaza City. Boycotts of Danish products spread throughout the Middle East, and death threats were issued against journalists...
...symbols in schools. But when asked about the threats directed at Europeans in the Gaza strip as the result of the cartoons, he said, "He who sows the wind reaps a tempest." Meanwhile, Western governments were left with no options much better than to straddle the dilemma the way Denmark did: by regretting the hurt caused by something they didn't do, while pointing out that they have no means or desire to punish journalists who did. But the dispute seems to have acquired a life of its own. Nestle, for example, took out ads in the Middle East early...
...vessels, and workers are ill-equipped, without proper tools or protective clothing. But with an insatiable demand for steel in Asia's booming economies, scrap prices have soared. Scrap now sells as high as $400 a ton in India, compared to roughly $150 a ton in Europe. "In Denmark you almost have to pay to get rid of a ship; in India they have a meaningful value," says Melchiors. He would like the imo to focus on forcing the shipbreaking yards to accept a higher standard of worker safety. Until that happens, though, shipbreaking seems bound to remain a race...
...pure childlike curiosity.” During his first week-long trip to the Arctic, Nweeia spent a week alone with an Inuit guide. On his second trip to the Arctic, he brought his friend and experienced photographer, Joseph Meehan. Teams of scientists from Canada, Denmark, and the United States accompanied him on his last two trips. On the fourth and final expedition this past summer, Meehan said he witnessed one of the most interesting uses the narwhals find for their tusks. “I saw tusking happen, once,” he said. “The tusks...