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Saudi Arabia is changing fast. Its population is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world: just 7.3 million people lived there in 1975, but more than 20 million do today. The Saudis have failed to invest their vast royalties in businesses that will provide jobs when the oil runs out--as one day it will. And for most of two decades, the price of oil has been relatively low. Political tension has been injected into a fragile economy. On television, Saudis see what they believe is a ruthless, U.S.-backed Israeli army shooting their fellow Arabs...
When the U.S. Census took its once-a-decade snapshot of the American people last year, Gary and Sarah Weiss, who spends weekdays with her dad in Calabasas, Calif., and weekends with her mom in nearby Los Angeles, joined one of the fastest-growing categories in the statistical kaleidoscope: households headed by unmarried men with children. Nationwide, the Census counted 2.2 million of them, a 62% increase over 1990 and a 171% increase in the past two decades. Some are divorced fathers with sole or joint custody. Some are widowers or single men with adopted children. And as many...
...private gyms, often as part of gymnastic clubs. All-Stars are the flashy fringe of the cheering world; because they are privately run and unencumbered by school affiliation, the squads blur the boundaries between spectacular gymnastics, outrageous stunts, cheer and dance. They have helped make competitive cheer the fastest-growing women's sport in the country. The squads exist to practice, perform and compete, and have popularized an in-your-face style of cheering and seductive dance movements that have alarmed some adults...
That criticism is part of what has occasionally garnered Hitchens the title of media whore, along with his recurrent television news panel appearances (surely the fastest way to earn the label). To his credit, nearly all of Hitchens’s contributions to public dialogue have been generally meaningful and unfailingly shrewd. One could argue, too, that his brand of rootless intellectual promiscuity embodies his professed ideal of nonconformity in refusing to stay within the traditional alignments of a man of the left: by giving favors to all, he pledges allegiance to none...
...Arizona somehow found a way to get three hits off Rivera in the bottom of the ninth—all of which resulted in broken bats—and then became the fastest expansion team to ever win a World Series when Luis Gonzalez blooped a single over Derek Jeter to drive in the game-winning...