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...also an expression of America's legal and moral position in Iraq. Americans are riding roughshod over international laws designed to prevent such abuses. They put their prisoners of war outside the reach of all law, even U.S. justice. Meanwhile, the hatred that is so necessary for Osama bin Laden to reach his goal of a global holy war is radiating directly from Iraq. From bin Laden's viewpoint, the Iraq war must already be a greater success than the 9/11 attacks. Leendert D. De Rust Durbanville, South Africa...
...accounts of Eastern wonders relayed by traders along the Silk Road, there was always suspicion in the Occidental mind about whether the fabled bounty of the trade link truly existed. It wasn't until Nicolo Polo and his son Marco returned from their second trip along the legendary route laden with the treasures and innovations that Nicolo had claimed to see on previous journeys that Venetians began to believe the tales. Even then, at Marco's deathbed, a priest came to ask whether he would be willing to confess his falsehoods. "I did not tell half of what...
...where he remains in critical but improving condition. The killers escaped. Almost immediately, a website favored by al-Qaeda branded the journalists "dirty infidels." It was the latest episode in al-Qaeda's accelerating and increasingly successful campaign to wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia, the homeland of Osama bin Laden, by taking aim at foreigners working in the kingdom. Two days after the attack on the journalists, a hit squad believed to be linked to al-Qaeda gunned down Robert Jacobs, an American working on a contract to train the Saudi Arabian National Guard, outside his Riyadh home. An almost...
...used as a sugar substitute. Farmers armed with powerful fertilizers and high-tech equipment are growing enormous quantities of corn and wheat, most of which is processed and refined to be tastier and more convenient but is less nutritious. They are raising vast herds of cattle whose meat is laden with the fat that makes it taste so good. They are producing milk, butter and cheese by the tankerload, again full of the fat that humans crave...
...liver was roughly the same as if he had been on an alcohol binge of a similar duration. There is also evidence that he became something of a fast-food addict, with his sense of well-being increasingly dependent on the rush his fat-and fructose-laden eats provided. You come away from his film convinced that "Happy Meal" is something more than a trademark. For a certain class of Americans, it is the cheapest available source of bliss--ephemeral yet palpable...