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...number of European Muslims grows - from 12 million a decade ago to 20 million today - so does the need for mosques. A 2007 report by the Italian Department for Security Information found the number of mosques in the country had grown from 351 to 735 in a mere seven years. Mosque numbers in France and Germany have also exploded. While Europe's churches sit empty or are converted into luxury lofts and schools, Muslims are building mosques in old nightclubs and supermarkets, in former sauerkraut and pharmaceutical factories and, yes, abandoned churches. As Muslims get wealthier, more confident and more...
Today's active-duty Army recruiting force is 7,600-strong. Soldiers attend school at Fort Jackson, S.C., for seven weeks before being sent to one of the 38 recruiting battalions across the nation. There they spend their days calling lists of high school seniors and other prospects and visiting schools and malls. At night, they visit the homes of potential recruits to sell them on one of the Army's 150 different jobs and seal the deal with hefty enlistment bonuses: up to $40,000 in cash and as much as $65,000 for college. The manual issued...
...heart,” co-captain Brady Weissbourd says. “He’s been a great teammate the entire time.”Signs of good things to come became apparent when Jones, in his first collegiate game against Springfield, accounted for seven kills and five digs. And while the promise of playing time drew Jones to the Crimson in the first place, the unexpected departure of prized recruit Nikola Ivica pushed the freshman further into the limelight and on to the front lines of a depleted team roster.Always the opportunist, Jones quickly relished his elevated role...
...next seven days, I never stop paddling as we descend nearly 70 stretches of rapids. There are moments of respite when the Kameng turns back into smooth jade, and we have time to ponder the misty jungle around us. An occasional hornbill glides by, its wings sounding like flapping canvas. Romulus finds plenty of leopard footprints in the sand around our camps, but no sign of the owners or the pit vipers. One night, we try to keep a sentry fire burning all night in the rain to scare off wild elephants. The fire gutters out, but luckily the elephants...
...weeks, Netanyahu struggled to build a coalition. The result is a Rube Goldberg-like contraption with 30 Cabinet ministers and seven deputy ministers. (Britain, a nation nearly 10 times the size of Israel, has only 22 Cabinet ministers.) Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, of the centrist Kadima Party, called the new government "bloated" with "ministers of nothing." A Haaretz poll shows that, with Netanyahu's leadership less than 24 hours old, 54% of Israelis are "unhappy" with his sprawling government, leading one Israeli pundit to comment (using the politician's nickname), "Bibi's period of grace lasted...