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...keeping terrorists busy there and all around the world. We invade countries to spread our form of government, then we fail to comprehend their ancient tribal systems, their religious systems and their views about marriage and family structure. The rise of terrorist activity over the past decade should at last lead us to look more carefully at ourselves, not the people chewing khat in Yemen...
Klein apparently spends too much time tweeting with people just like him. To call those of us who voted for change in the past election "village idiots" because we think the Democrats' health care plan is a sellout destined to be a fiasco shows how far removed he is from working America...
...Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares looks familiar, that's probably because his image recently appeared on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists--next to Osama bin Laden's name. In an effort to depict how the elusive al-Qaeda leader, now 52, may have aged over the past decade, an FBI forensic artist took a photo of Llamazares from the Internet and merged it with bin Laden's features. The bureau has apologized to Llamazares and removed the picture from its website...
...children and teens are now using their phones, computers, TVs and video-game systems for a total of 7.5 hours a day, or 52.5 hours a week. (The authors explain that multitasking and dual-use devices--like cell phones that play video--push those figures even higher.) In the past decade, music listening has increased the most, up nearly an hour per day. The only leisure activity that has become less popular is reading...
...Over the past few years, however, there's been a Saarinen reappraisal. Set free by computer-aided design, contemporary architects like Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have moved quite a distance from Modernist orthodoxy. And a great deal of Saarinen's work, especially his adventures in fluid geometry, today looks as if it's the predecessor of theirs. It's easier now to regard his expressive buildings as a principled attempt to reconcile the Modernist drive to purify and clarify with the abiding human desire for something that strikes other, warmer and no less essential chords. (See pictures...