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...Muslim leaders, Tom Zreika, the powerful president of that country's largest Islamic organization, warns that Aussies have "had enough of [the Muslim community] ... we have become the new communism." Among his recommendations for better integration: take note of the Aussie reverence for firemen and lifeguards and grab a hose or a whistle. "It would be great," Zreika writes, "to see a turbaned imam fighting fires alongside other bushfire volunteers...
...violations were reported because of clerical errors, and did not actually involve animal abuse. The one exception was the incident of the asphyxiated primate, which Gibbons called “an unfortunate accident.” In the experiment, a monkey was drinking grape juice through a hose and “loved the grape juice so much, it stuffed the tube down its throat,” Gibbons said. The researcher could only see the back of the monkey’s head and didn’t realize the monkey was suffocating until it was too late, according...
...with flowers, wreaths and poems, supporters of Jiang Qing sent in police and militia to disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial. It took the cleaners of Peking two days to hose away the blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began...
Aresa uses a seeding hose known as a "hydroseeder" - groundskeepers use such a hose to grow green grass on golf courses - to cover about a football field of territory in a day. After four to five weeks the thale-cress will have sprouted and turned red if it encounters nitrogen dioxide. Normally, plants neutralize nitrogen dioxide, which they recognize as harmful. But Aresa scientists, led by founder Meier, have genetically engineered thale-cress, fusing its nitrogen dioxide neutralizer with an enzyme that creates red pigment (plants naturally produce red pigment, which isn't visible until the green disappears in autumn...
...abnormality. Brain-imaging skeptics would argue that all Mondraty and Sachdev have observed is an extreme example of what happens in the brain when we focus on something that makes us feel anxious and inadequate, or when dread causes us to mistake the harmless for the fearsome - the garden hose for a snake...