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This hopeless defiance has grown in the Palestinians during the intifadeh. Those who feel it admit they have let go their hold on logic, stopped trying to think of solutions and turned to the welcoming, numbing embrace of death. Men like Abu al-Fahed would have made unlikely martyrs before these two years of bloodshed. With five children, he would not have gone out to die on a suicide mission and leave his family without a wage earner. And though he is religious, like most Palestinians, he is no fundamentalist with dreams of paradise. Jobless because Israel no longer allows...
...leptin triggered the development of some very fat mice, it seemed that a cure for obesity was finally at hand. If these fat mice didn't make enough leptin, the reasoning went, then maybe fat people didn't make enough either. Would giving them leptin make them thin? The logic was so compelling that the pharmaceuticals firm Amgen reportedly paid tens of millions of dollars for development rights. It turned out, however, that most fat people--and fat mice--produce plenty of leptin. Their bodies, for reasons that are poorly understood, just aren't very sensitive to its effects...
...workers helping to rebuild the country?crowd the dining room on weekends. The view is expansive, the menu limited. The cook has only two strings to her bow: fried beef or fried chicken. "If you are here for two days it's perfect," explained the manager with Basil Fawlty logic. "One day you can have beef. The next you can have chicken." Either way, a decision has to be made before 5 p.m., to allow the cook time to purchase the meat from the Maubisse market, just down the hill from the hotel in the center of town. There...
...logic of the cigarette boycott may be questionable - like many other "American" goods on the boycott list, the Marlboros on sale in Egypt are actually produced here - but it does provide an emotional outlet for anger against America, whose unconditional support for Israel, people believe, enables what they see as the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Palestinian society. The guilty Marlboro-smoker must typically have prepared some defense, as my friend Amr did last week: "I just came back from Ramallah, and I'll have you know, it makes no difference on the ground what you smoke...
...seems like looking-glass logic: if people can't afford food, raise prices. But that's what North Korea has done recently, in what could be an epochal shift away from the impoverishment of the country's Stalinist economy. The government acknowledged that market forces are, to a degree, being allowed to function in place of a system based on rationing and subsidies. Farmers' markets, for example, have been allowed to raise rice prices more than 50-fold, equaling black-market prices. To cover the increased living costs, the government is lifting wages as much as 30-fold, but free...