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...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship
...Fire" evangelical religious camp every summer at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, without, as the cameras are concerned, acknowledging the irony implicit in the location's name. Fisher is, so far as we can tell, monomaniacal. She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain. She uses these, she says, to demonstrate how dark thoughts and bad words can worm their way into the human cortex...
...11th, according to Wolfe. Research has shown that since screeners so rarely find a dangerous item, they are likely to fall prey to what Wolfe calls the “rare target effect.” “Although their eyes may perceive the shape of a dangerous object, their mind is used to operating as if there is nothing suspicious in the bag,” Wolfe said. “As a result, they may see the item without reacting,” In the lab, if only two percent of the bags screened contained dangerous items...
...they still considered him an enemy of the government.But in December 2005, he officially joined the negotiation team as a personal adviser to the chief mediator, Salim Ahmed Salim.“If I was brought on as a personal adviser to him, they couldn’t object,” de Waal says.De Waal says he had three primary responsibilities—communicate with the rebel groups, offer overall strategic advice, and negotiate the cease-fire and security arrangements.‘AGONIZINGLY’ CLOSEOn April 12, 2006, the United Nations (UN) set an April 30 deadline...
...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship