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...nearly fifty comix artists (most of them unknown) working in a short biographical format. Subjects run wildly from the man in the Godzilla suit to ethnobotonist Richard Evans Schultes to a stock-car-racing monkey named Jocko. Not only fun but educational - I was pleased to learn the origin of the Jacuzzi and the Leslie speaker - this clever theme limits the self-indulgence of the works and virtually forces creators to write linear narratives. You end up with such oddball delights as Nicky B.'s juvenile, hip-hop version of the old chestnut Davey Crocket story ("My hunting skills...
Nevertheless, we continue to rely on such words. We have to, motivated by the tireless question about the origin of the hatred toward the U.S. To answer questions like these, many of us turn to scholarship—for instance, to Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, who has described a narrative of Muslim bitterness provoked by a crusading Christian West. In his 1990 essay, The Roots of Muslim Rage, Lewis concludes that the U.S. and Islam represent worlds fated to clash...
...destruction. We are entering a period in which a small number of people, operating without overt state sponsorship but using the enormous power of modern computers, biogenetic pathogens, air transport and even small nuclear weapons, will be able to exploit the tremendous vulnerabilities of contemporary open societies. Because the origin of these attacks can be effectively disguised, fundamental tenets of the nation-state will change...
...CONSIDER A TRIP TO YOUR CHILD'S HOMELAND If your child expresses curiosity about her country of origin and an interest in seeing where she came from, plan a family trip. Many agencies offer special tours for adopted kids and their families...
...Whether or not Saudi disinvestment proves to be as extensive as reported, the news certainly functions as a warning shot from Riyadh over the future of U.S.-Saudi relations. The September 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi origin prompted some Washington hawks to challenge the longstanding U.S. alliance with the House of Saud. In the weeks and months that followed, they painted the Saudis as double-dealing autocrats whose rigidly controlled society actively nurtured extremism, and who could not be relied on as an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism...