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...refusal to vacate the occupied territories. People like Krauthammer were wrong when they advocated attacking Iraq, and they are wrong now in creating the bogey of radical Islam. The problem is closer to home. The imperial hubris of the U.S. and its support of Israel contribute to the mess in the Middle East. One wonders if the people of Israel will benefit in the long run. Ijaz Ahmad Khan Rawalpindi, Pakistan In his counterpoint on the Middle East conflict, Krauthammer explains that Hamas wants to recover any lands Muslims have conquered by force because those lands belong to them forever...
...Anybody knows not to mess with me" Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House
...When Frost, who is now out of Congress, unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee last year, Pelosi repeatedly rebuffed his attempts to get her support. While she declines to discuss those conflicts, Pelosi told TIME, "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me." Pelosi carries a chip on her shoulder, believing that fellow Democrats and media élites have constantly underestimated her political ability, dating back to her unsuccessful effort to become head of the Democratic National Committee in 1985, when she was called an "airhead" by a labor-union official...
That's because Roth and his partner James Powderly are pioneers of no-mess graffiti. Drawing on Powderly's background in military robotics and Roth's expertise in architecture, they have invented new ways to leave their mark on the city without defacing it. Their latest development is called the "throwie"--a cluster of LEDs attached to a battery and small magnet. A bunch of throwies can be tossed at any iron surface to create instant graffiti. Alternatively, a tag can be spelled out in advance on a T-shaped "night writer" and slapped onto metal surfaces at improbable heights...
...candlelight. A lot of good technology goes from indefensible to indispensable because, by pure logic, the day before it was invented, it wasn't invented, and everybody lived a different way. So the day after it's invented, you don't see people saying, "Yesterday my life was a mess, and today, I'm enlightened and I will change everything I do." That's not the way the world works. So there's a an adoption curve, and it's more related to people's ability to assimilate ideas, than to an engineer's or physicist's or an inventor...