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Since Sept. 11, Abdullah has sent clear signals - albeit in the quiet, gradual Saudi way - that Saudis must get their heads out of the sand and become part of the global village. One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical brand of religion, known as Wahhabism, to unacceptable extremes. Though not to Washington's complete satisfaction, Abdullah began tightening up on potential terrorist financing, scrutinizing Islamic charities and freezing some suspect bank accounts - an explosive issue in a culture that fiercely guards privacy...
...with anti-American and anti-Semitic rants. There is no sign that he plans democracy any time soon, beyond the Kingdom's nine-year-old, 120-member appointed national assembly. His bottom line is that change will come, but at a Saudi pace. "It is more rational to change gradually," he explains. "There is less disruption to the social balance. We are blessed that we can afford gradual and continuous change...
...officers and special-ops commandos to aid Afghan opposition forces on the ground while warplanes drop bombs from the sky; collaborate with other intelligence services around the world to bust up terrorist cells with tips from the CIA's spies; and do it all without allowing a Vietnam-style gradual escalation of U.S. military involvement. This would be a war fought by others, with the U.S. role both obvious and covert, a combination of brute force, financial muscle and behind-the-scenes finesse. It would take discipline and patience, Tenet said, but it would work...
Global warming moved another notch up the worry scale last week when the National Academy of Sciences reported that human pollution might not just be causing a gradual rise in the earth's temperature but could also lead to "large, abrupt, and unwelcome" climate change. So it was a particularly good week for DaimlerChrysler to introduce a new fuel-efficient minivan called the Natrium. It runs on a common compound called sodium borohydride. A chemical reaction inside the engine produces hydrogen to power the car's fuel cell, leaving behind not carbon dioxide (the primary culprit in global warming...
Turkel’s amendments, introduced at a workshop open to the public, propose a gradual increase in the involvement of socioeconomic factors in school choice, and using gender and siblings as factors when assigning schools...