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...must be performed at least once by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. (Borrowing money to come is prohibited, although many do.) Having performed the Hajj becomes a lifelong distinction celebrated with an honorific: I can now call myself Hajji Maseeh Rahman. And the Hajj is done en masse during one five-day period in the final month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Two million faithful have come to Mecca this year from virtually everywhere - Bosnia, the Ivory Coast, Michigan - and it feels like the most interesting year to be a Hajji since 1183, when a band...
...been up for little more than an hour. In that time, I had nursed myself to an uneasy state of recovery through a self-prescribed regimen of temple massaging, controlled breathing and eye squints—all while en route to Manchester, N.H., from Cambridge. I was still in that precarious physical condition where even the sound of my own swallowing rocked my head like a bullhorn when we arrived at our destination. So, one can imagine how my fragile equilibrium—and my will to live—were jolted when suddenly a noise as sharp...
...prescription, written by one of the kindly docs employed by the offshore pharmacies. They asked you a few questions when you logged on, and dashed off a cyber "scrip" on the spot. Does that make your case any stronger, if, say, a customs agent opens your package of opiates en route from Mexico? Maybe, says Palumbo, and maybe not. "The Controlled Substance Act in the U.S. says a prescription must be written for a legitimate medical purpose, but the feds generally don't go after patients ordering drugs for themselves." Of course, he adds, if you're caught selling...
EGYPT Holiday Express to the Inferno A train crammed full of passengers returning home for the Eid al Adha holiday caught fire en route from Cairo to Luxor. The driver kept going for 7 km, the wind fanning flames. Bars on some windows prevented escape, but many people jumped and some survived with injuries. Relatives went to identify the remains of the more than 360 dead in Cairo's central morgue, but many were burned beyond recognition. The Minister of Transport and the head of the state railway system resigned...
Perhaps most shocking was the play of Sigafoos, who was able to avoid foul trouble en route to his 10-point performance...