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That is the dangerous denial from which mainstream Muslims need to emerge. While our spokesmen assure us that Islam is an innocent bystander in today's terrorism, those who commit terrorist acts often tell us otherwise. Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, left behind a note asserting that "it is enough for us to know that the Koran's verses are the words of the Creator of the Earth and all the planets." Atta highlighted the Koran's description of heaven. In 2004 the executioners of Nick Berg, an American contractor in Iraq, alluded on tape...
...technology has gained popularity in the last year by enabling internet users to track updates to their favorite weblogs. Mainstream media, including ABC and CNN, have followed by adding their own RSS feeds...
...basic set of uses right now is subscribing to newsfeeds and podcasts, which are files embedded in news feeds,” Palfrey said. Podcasting is primarily the transmission of mainstream radio shows and grassroots audio blogs using RSS feeds...
...scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess not just raw emotions but also subtler and more sophisticated mental states, including envy...
...drunken, lecherous former pro player (Billy Bob Thornton, taking Walter Matthau's role) who agrees to coach a bunch of talentless Little Leaguers in exchange for cash. "There's a good bit of rebellion and subversiveness in it and all the values I'd want to put out in mainstream culture," Linklater says...