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...retracing Pearl's last steps - the story that got him killed - Lévy concludes that the reporter's kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment was essentially a "crime of state" that implicates parts of the Pakistani government. And it is in Pakistan, he believes, where al-Qaeda's "madmen of God" mesh with nuclear scientists and intelligence chiefs, that a battle must be joined that will dwarf the controversy over Iraq. "The tyranny of Saddam Hussein belongs to another century," Lévy says. "The debate of the next century will be over militant Islam." His guide into this netherworld...
...slang, rather than in eloquent classical Arabic more common among Shiite scholars and clerics. And, again unlike other Shiite leaders, he spoke bluntly and aggressively, without vague hints and innuendo. Muqtada professes no gratitude to the U.S. for ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein. He gives all the thanks to God...
...this threat is a recently discovered vulnerability of the Gulf Stream. The current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...
Andy is nothing if not confident. His ambition is “to be the next Pope.” In case we don’t understand the Catholic hierarchy, he uses hand gestures to indicate that “God is here” (upraised left fist) “and the Pope is here” (right fist held an inch or two below). Lauren asks about the celibacy thing. “I’m going to change that,” he tells us, explaining his intention to marry a woman while Pope. What...
...Thank God the floors are slanted anyway, the water poured in the right direction,” Pemberton said, as Dickinson turned on her printer which sat on the floor. The machine whirred back to life effortlessly...