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...before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes, "We can't say we didn't know what was going on. People who stood...
...Bottom line: Forget HRT. Get to the gym, and watch your diet...
...Costco's worth of Kraft Easy Mac, pizza-flavored Pringles, Handi-Snacks and Cheetos. In addition to frying the occasional peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Smith has been caught on camera putting Cheez Whiz on a pickle. At the go-cart place, Smith, on the second day of her diet, attempts to eat a piece of celery, which she tries to peel. If you catch only one episode of her show, I'm guessing it should be the one in which the E!-recommended nutritionist is scheduled to come...
...powerful example of why the country needs a "whistle-blowers law," a legal shield to protect insiders who disclose damning information about their employers. "There are so many scandals concerning bureaucrats that have come to light in the past several years," says Mitsuru Sakurai, a member of the Diet, Japan's legislature. "I reckon 90% were exposed by people within the ministries. We have to encourage more people to follow their lead...
...Politicians like Sakurai and Etsuko Kawada, a nonpartisan Diet member whose hemophiliac son contracted HIV from a tainted blood transfusion, are trying to encourage whistle-blowing as a line of defense against corporate and bureaucratic malfeasance. Sakurai's Democratic Party and four other opposition parties are drafting legislation they plan to introduce at a special Diet session scheduled for October. Their Public Interest Disclosure Law calls for the creation of a special body run by a five-member citizens' committee, which would have the power to investigate cases where government employees have been harassed or fired for stepping forward...