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...Ahmad is eighteen. This is early April; again green sneaks, seed by seed, into the drab citys earthy crevices. He looks down from his new height and thinks that to the insects unseen in the grass he would be, if they had a consciousness like his, God. In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired...
...sees Abbas as a lame duck. The Palestinian leader is not trusted by the democratically elected Hamas government, without whose consent no deal is credible, and he is pretty much ignored by as much as half of the rank-and-file of his own Fatah organization. Even at the height of his powers he had been unable to act against the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah, and his powers have dimmed considerably since then...
Last fall, at the height of Washington Nationals fever in the nation's capital, everyone was invoking baseball metaphors - even John Roberts, the Supreme Court nominee, who gave a long treatise at his confirmation hearings comparing the job of a judge to a baseball umpire. But the Nationals are having a terrible season, and Washington is a football town anyway, so it was probably appropriate that General Michael Hayden often sounded more like he was being interviewed for the job of coach of his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers rather than CIA director. At his Senate confirmation hearing, Hayden said the agency...
...height of World War II--and his baseball career--DiMaggio enlisted in the Army. Commissioned as a sergeant and a physical-education instructor outside San Francisco, he probably received this...
...calls the "warm, pleasurable feelings" that come from human interaction serve as a reinforcement for learning. In a classroom of 11-to-14-year-olds, kids are asked to stand in a narrow row between two strips of blue crepe paper representing water. The challenge: to arrange themselves in height order without stepping over the lines and falling "off the boat." The task combines communication skills, problem solving and visual, spatial skills. Teachers at CTC are trained to work on sensory issues and use the principles of occupational therapy throughout the day, Osgood explains, rather than in a separate program...