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...Islamic school near the tiny settlement of Sungei Tiram. The school was Militant U. Among those who gathered there, according to regional intelligence officials, were Abubakar, Sungkar (who died of natural causes in 1999), Hambali and Mukhlas. The four men used the madrasah as a base for recruiting their earliest disciples. One of the first was Amrozi. "It was Mas [brother] Mukhlas who raised my awareness to fight the injustice toward Islam," Amrozi told police...
Until then, what doctors would like to have is some kind of test that will identify people in the earliest stages of osteoarthritis, before too much damage has occurred. That way their treatments might stand a better chance of arresting the degenerative process before disability sets in. Unfortunately, conventional X rays, which give very detailed pictures of bone, don't provide very good images of cartilage. And researchers haven't yet discovered any biological markers in the blood that reliably tell them, "Hey, this person's cartilage is starting to fall apart. Do something...
Orenstein locates the fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...
Later versions of the tale would draw more explicit morals from the story. The earliest, Charles Perrault’s “Le Petite Chaperon Rouge,” appeared in 1695 in his Tales of Times Past with Morals, the original Mother Goose tales. In this version, Red Riding Hood climbs into bed with the wolf—and is promptly devoured. Orenstein deftly shows us that the tale was intended as a morality fable for the decadent aristocracy under Louis XIV. In a society that both prized virginity and tolerated rampant sexual indiscretions, the tale cautioned ladies...
These superb pictures brilliantly illustrate the miracle of the earliest days of life--our very first photo album! ROSE MCBRIDE SAMRA Portage, Mich...