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...prevent terrorist acts only if we inform, train and activate the public at large to participate in the fight. Civilians should be involved in gathering intelligence, sharing information and detecting suspicious people. Remember, and remember well: the public at large is the first line of defense. JACOB VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Pretoria, South Africa...
...Faint, a band whose latest album, Danse Macabre, sounds like a cocktail of such slick Reagan-era synthesizer bands as New Order and the Cure, with a shot of alternative-rock grit tossed in. Singer and keyboardist Todd Baechle, 28; his brother Clark, 21, on drums; keyboardist Jacob Thiele, 22; guitarist Dapose (just Dapose), 22; and bassist Joel Petersen, 27, plan to embark this week on an arena and theater tour with the hugely popular No Doubt, so the MTV audience is in their sights...
...each. "I'll look at the bill later," he said, as his two colleagues, geologists at an engineering company, raved about the "buttery taste" and "subtlety" of the oak barrel-aged liquor, enlivened only with fresh lime juice and a dash of Triple Sec. "It goes down easy," explained Jacob Henry, who recently got a $300 bottle of Herradura Seleccion Suprema for his 24th birthday...
...Jacob thought the regulations were ridiculous, since in all his years on the farm, no one had done something so silly as smoke hemp. What's more, the U.S. government had been his biggest buyer of hemp in the '40s. Cannabis-growing permits were plentiful during World War II because imports of other fibers dried up. In 1942 the USDA even produced a film, Hemp for Victory, to encourage farmers to plant hemp to meet wartime demand for rope...
Back in Kentucky, Jacob Graves drives out U.S. 60 a little ways east of Leafland. He stops at a historical plaque placed by the state to mark hemp's history. STATE'S LARGEST CASH CROP TILL 1915, it says. "See?" says Graves. "If we get this done, what's old will be new again." Hemp-crust apple pie, anyone...