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...Taming Iran" [Feb. 19]. After delivering a lesson on the war with the Barbary States, he insinuated that Iran's threat might likewise be a missionary one of "militant jihad" to "make slaves" of "sinners." And in justifying the Barbary Wars by claiming, "Sufficient to the day was the evil thereof," he evidently intended to demonize Iran by representing it as a vague menace. His message is alarmist and empty...
...living room, where he has put his two wives and 11 children to work, cutting, shaping and gluing the intricate tissue-paper mosaics that make his kites stand out for their beauty and superior handling. The secret is in the glue, he says, holding up a pot of evil-smelling green paste. "No one knows my recipe for making a glue that stays perfectly flat when it dries, without rippling the tissue paper," he says. Business is so good these days that Agha has had to teach his wives how to make kites. He proudly calls one of them...
...housed in bamboo shells. Unlike plastic, bamboo is an eco-friendly, renewable material. A crop of this fast-growing grass eats up more CO2 than an equivalent field of trees, so farming it can help to reduce greenhouse gases. It also biodegrades easily and doesn't release any evil compounds when it's decomposing. However, that doesn't mean your keyboard will start decaying on your desk. All of the bamboo is dried and treated for bugs and infestations, resulting in a material that's harder than oak and no more likely to rot than its plastic equivalent. Now that...
...Another asks people on the street for their opinions on love, eliciting responses that range from tales of personal romance to a declaration, “[Love] sucks...women will get you in trouble every time. Daddy one time told me, he said women are the root of all evil.” Robin Lapidus, the Association’s marketing and events director, explains that the campaign lasts all month because “the restaurants are always so busy on Valentine’s Day, they don’t necessarily want another event in the Square...
...United States and North Korea collapsed in 2002, the U.S. abandoned diplomacy in favor of a hard-line, isolationist approach. In his infamous State of the Union address, President George W. Bush went so far as to label North Korea part of an international “Axis of Evil...