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...every day at 1 p.m., a time when the Yard is bustling with students. From the time of its earliest recitation, the adhan has asked Muslims to leave behind everything and hasten to prayer, so that they may join their companions in worship. The adhan then symbolizes an integral element of the Islamic lifestyle, and to study Islamic theology and practice without recourse to this recitation is to do injustice to the faith. It is unfair to view this expression of religious belief as an act of proselytization. The aim of the Harvard Islamic Society in pursuing this tradition...
...Whether it's tinkering with hydraulics, aerodynamics or something else, "The discipline you have to bring to the technical exercise is extreme," McLaren boss Ron Dennis has said. "One weak element and you're not going to win." For the investment over the years, people get to see cars that accelerate from zero to 160 km/h in 3.5 sec., and are so endowed with aerodynamic downforce that, in theory, you could drive one of these babies across the ceiling. Eventually, some of that technology filters down into the cars that the rest of us get around in: the steering wheel...
...when her younger child asked her for juice. "It was uncomfortable," she says. "We had to leave." "You can see very vivid differences between the U.K. and countries in Europe," says Reitemeier. "You go onto sink estates [poor housing projects] in this country and there isn't a single element designed for children...
Stand-up comics are the suicide bombers of the cultural world. They act alone, using stripped-down devices - a mike, and maybe a glass of water or a barstool. Their weapon, language, is decidedly low-tech, so they rely on the element of surprise to startle unsuspecting crowds. "If a joke is set up properly, and detonates properly," says Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman, the effect is revelatory: "If you and your audience see something in a new way, and the explosion is joy and laughter, that's the most rewarding thing in the world, apart from...
There was some feeling, however, that Reagan's challenge to a system of deterrence that is based on the threat of mutual destruction could be a welcome element in the debate over nuclear policy. "Reagan now suggests that we slowly start investigating whether in the next century technology may offer a solution to our security that does not rest on the prospect of mass and mutual death," noted the Washington Post. "It is the product of Ronald Reagan's peculiar knack for asking an obvious question, one that has moral as well as political dimensions and one that the experts...