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...world so devastated by conflict. The cartoons ignored that aspect to focus instead on cute Saturday-morning storylines that could be resolved in a half-hour. With _Eugenesis_, Roberts succeeds in exposing the full terrifying scope of a war that has raged for millions of years. Powerplays and politics lend resonance to the battles that occur, often taking center stage. The interpersonal dynamics between the various Transformers are handled in a credible fashion that restore realism to the most unrealistic scenarios. This not to imply that action is given short shrift, for the fighting is frequent and furious. Nor does...
Like its cousin the sneaker, the tracksuit came into the fashion mainstream via the street, through hip-hop and rave culture. The sweat suit became a B-boy uniform partly because disco gear did not lend itself to the gymnastics of break dancing. Another influence: music legends like Bob Marley, who adopted sweats as a uniform (and may have been drawing on the much iconized image of tracksuit-clad John Carlos and Tommie Smith giving black-power salutes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
...substance as well. They disagree with a broad range of his policies, ranging from his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on global warming to his support of the death penalty. The gravest gulf comes over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where Europeans believe Bush's inaction and support for Israel lend credence to Islamist claims that the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq are really a war against Islam...
...Although well short of a full-scale mobilization, these were the first visible signs of military preparations on the highway, and lend a modicum of credibility to the official rhetoric about a readiness to resist an invasion. (With access to the north of the country denied to journalists, it was not possible to ascertain whether similar defenses were being set up along other important highways...
...Russia deported American computer programmer Megan McRee, 35, accusing her of establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...