Word: rational
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...asked that I give him a pseudonym, runs a car-alarm business: the nouveau riche at the top of this corrupt society can easily afford his $45 systems to protect their new Nissans and Protons. But Karim cannot feed his family of four on his meager monthly food ration. His earnings at the shop let him buy a little meat, a bit of chicken, to supplement the basics. When I ask him if anyone avoids the birthday parade, he looks at me as if I were daft. Anyone in Baghdad who has a job and wants to keep it shows...
...shops outside are full of fat oranges, Pepsi, Pringles chips, but Layla's friends without brothers abroad can't afford any of that. Some must sell off a portion of their meager monthly food ration to buy medicine. Imported medicines are smuggled in through the embargo-busting trade with Jordan and the Emirates, but only the rich can buy those. The poor get cheap pills from "private" Iraqi drug companies that "never, ever work," says a pharmacist in the posh Al-Mansur district...
...more to stop mobile mayhem. In the U.K. the tabloid press has regularly accused service providers of guilt by inertia. "Their pathetic inaction is responsible for a crime wave and pretty soon someone is going to be murdered for their mobile," blasted the Express. The French daily Libération also attacked service providers for their slowness in finding a solution...
...Overthrow the Oppressive Patriarchy” badge and the “Tool of the Cookie-Selling Establishment” badge. I wear fleece. I own a Nalgene. With this background in ruggedness, 47 days in the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on my back, a ration of corn mush and the mocking smirks of the cameramen would surely be no problem...
...Thursday titled "The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days." Leaving no victory unsung, the report details everything the U.S. has accomplished so far, from freezing $33 million in terrorist assets at home (coalition partners have frozen another $33 million abroad) to air-dropping 2,423,700 food ration packets to Afghan civilians. And only one mention that "much dangerous and difficult work remains to be done" in the hundreds and hundreds of days ahead...