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...Shamez Hemani was waiting in line to try out the shotguns at the National Scout Jamboree earlier this month when, he says, a white kid behind him asked that question. Shamez, 14, and four fellow scouts--all sons of Pakistani immigrants and members of all-Muslim Troop 797 in Houston--stood frozen for a couple of seconds. "Then we asked him what he said," Shamez says. "We were like, 'Do you know what it means?' And he was like, 'No.' He apologized. After you talk to them, you realize that it's not intentional--just ignorance." Not that it makes...
...jamboree, the 13 scouts from Troop 797 camped with troops from the Houston area, and the Muslims' very presence provided a learning experience for the others. "I always thought most Boy Scouts were white, Christian boys," said Jim Scofield, 13, a lanky scout with a quick giggle whose troop is sponsored by a Catholic church. Matthew Griffin, 13, a Mormon scout, says he didn't know that "there are lots of different kinds of Muslims." The Troop 797 scouts are Ismailis, whose practices differ from those of other Muslims; for instance, they pray three times a day instead of five...
HOWARD WOLFSON, Democratic strategist, on the former G.O.P. Governor of Massachusetts' entry into the New York gubernatorial race. A win would make Weld the second American, after Sam Houston, to have governed two states...
Women whose breast cancer is found by mammogram may have a 53% better survival rate than those whose cancer is discovered another way, says a study at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Reason: mammograms can better detect slower-growing tumors...
...body of Christ" said Mertes, standing on a muddy patch of turf in his Minnesota Twins shirt. "I have an open mind, I hope he does too." But others don't want the Pope to give any ground. Derek Smith, 23, a student at St. Thomas College in Houston, likes that Benedict "doesn't mince words." "It's what we young people need. There are moral absolutes, and they need to be enforced, otherwise you have anarchy...