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Trying to Expel the Sheik
...immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally. At that point, says a U.S. diplomat, "the Egyptians went ballistic" and insisted that the U.S. expel Sheik Abdel Rahman. His residency status was lifted last year, but his case could be tied up in court for years...
...digestive juices dissolve the thick wall of the oocysts, triggering a growth cycle that ends in a reproductive orgy. Tiny protozoans attach themselves to intestinal walls and begin to mature. While there, scientists speculate, they probably exude some irritating toxin -- just the thing to cause the host organism to expel the oocysts produced by the adult organisms through diarrhea and vomiting. "A sick person will produce 100 million oocysts a day," marvels Cliver...
...Palestinians living in the occupied territories, deportations of their brethren evoke fears that one day the Israelis will expel them all from their homes. So it was on Friday, when Israeli authorities deported to Lebanon more than 400 alleged activists from the Muslim fundamentalist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The expulsions were in retaliation for the shooting of four Israeli soldiers and the Hamas' kidnap-murder of a border policeman. In the Gaza Strip, at weekend demonstrations to protest the expulsions, six Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops...
...that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...