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...Indeed, as Hosni has rushed to explain or reject his inflammatory comments abroad, Egyptian officials and cultural figures have sounded alarmed at him going soft. "I am angry with him," Egyptian poet Abderahman al-Abnudi recently wrote in the pro-government magazine Al-Mussawer. "The fact that he apologizes in this manner fills me with deep sadness." (See a video of anger and labor strikes in Egypt's Nile Delta...
...obsession with onanism is a bit curious, given that the 102-page document mentions masturbation only five times: twice to explain to 5-to-8-year-olds what the term means, saying teachers should note that it's "not harmful, but should be done in private," and the other three times in a section referring to 9-to-15-year-olds, pointing out that these kids should be told it "does not cause physical or emotional harm" and is "often a person's first experience of sexual pleasure...
...Senator, he bucked President Bush to work with Baucus and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 2007. He has also championed government whistle-blowers and launched probes into the tax status of (GOP friendly) Evangelical preachers. That independence helps explain why he is easily Iowa's most popular politician, winning re-election four times. "Everybody trusts Chuck in Iowa," says former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach...
...simply labeling such crimes as "gang-related" does not explain what is happening on the streets. Criminal-justice experts are beginning to believe that a majority of the violence does not result from directives from any formal gang hierarchy, but rather that it is the result of beefs between smaller neighborhood groups that can be started by anything from a kidnapping, as in the Baltimore case, to a simple look of disrespect on a rival's face. A fistfight among young men can escalate into drive-by shootings that elicit identical retribution, finally leading to the slaying of people...
...With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces." - Explain why he prefers climbing buildings instead of mountains. (In an interview with Buildering.net, June...