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...wistful history of two brothers and their family electrical-fan business. Seth, n? Gregory Gallant, 41, got the idea for the book from an old storefront office of the same name in Toronto. "I used to look into the window when I walked by," Seth says, "and in the dim light you could see on the back wall photographs of two men who were probably the owners. Over the next couple of years I put together a story of what these guys were about, although it probably had nothing to do with their real lives...
...Shumali, 24, another computer-science student, rely on relatives overseas for help in obtaining work visas. Al-Shumali says his cousins have secured a visa for him to go to Germany, where he hopes to find a decent high-tech job despite speaking no German. Female graduates have particularly dim hopes. Rawa Mahdi, 21, who received her degree in English literature last week, says she and her girlfriends are forbidden by their parents to leave Iraq without husbands. The trouble is that almost all the men she knows are fleeing. "The men might ask their families after a while...
Before his mock detainment, Ali—who, despite his sometimes dim-witted persona, is the Cambridge University-educated Sacha Baron Cohen off stage—was eager to display his own depth of knowledge...
Though the prospects of developing a Zimbabwean space program in the near future may be dim, Mohamed doesn’t have to think twice about what she’d do if she did become an astronaut...
...WATCH THIS EVENT WITHOUT ADEQUATE EYE PROTECTION The sun may look dim through sunglasses, unexposed photographic film and CDs, but it can cause permanent blindness. The only safe way to look at the transit is through No. 14 welder's glasses or a Mylar filter certified for sun observation (some manufacturers have made such filters into goggles). If you aren't absolutely sure that's what you've got, you can avoid frying your retinas by making a pinhole projector, right, and watching indirectly...