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...Muslim population a "special status" similar to that of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Muslims must observe a 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. Muslims are "not allowed to stay in the street, in restaurants and other public places." Muslims are forbidden to swim in the rivers, to fish or hunt, to use or drive motor vehicles, to be in groups of more than three, to use telecommunications facilities except for a post-office telephone, to sell real estate or exchange apartments without a special authorization. The order includes a list of 34 Muslim citizens of Celinac...
...insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values rhetoric is mere caviar denunciation...
...attack on black religious leaders. Baptist churches, Speech complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor...
...kind of goat. Scientists brought out bones and skin samples to help them find out where it fits in the evolutionary puzzle. The expedition, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, also brought back sightings or specimens of two new species of bird, one new kind of fish, and a previously unknown, yellow- shelled tortoise -- and there are probably more new creatures to be found. A follow-up expedition is already in the works...
Algae, microscopic plants that live in water, sometimes give off poisons that kill fish. They hide on the bottom, detect fish overhead, then emerge to release their toxins. They also feed off fluids that come from the fish...