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...Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras throughout the U.K., plans to torch, spray-paint and run over the congestion-fee cameras, too. "We've clearly paid for these roads already," says a member of the group, who declines to be named. "We're like sheep. The French wouldn't have it." Driving has never been an entirely logical exercise. Motorists make emotional decisions about when to pass, for example, and tend to think the lane next to them is going faster even when it isn't, according to research by Donald Redelmeier of the University...
Suleiman was born and raised in Nazareth and moved at 17 to New York City (where, he says, "I practiced being an illegal immigrant"). In 1989 he went home and picked up his brother's old vhs camera. "I started by filming sheep," he says. "Somehow sheep manage to pose very well." Now he lives in France, where he shot his film's more incendiary scenes. In Palestine, you can't get a movie permit to blow up an Israeli tank...
...agency on a temporary basis to provide special military skills that the CIA needs for specific missions. If a soldier is assigned highly clandestine work, his records are changed to make it appear as if he resigned from the military or was given civilian status; the process is called sheep dipping, after the practice of bathing sheep before they are sheared...
...Operation Mongoose wore on, it became apparent that Adhi Ghar was intended as a large-scale, long-term rebel base. Soldiers blew up six arms caches hidden in the caves and found vast stores of food and other supplies. The rebels had pack mules and their own flock of sheep. "They had mutton," says Raziq. "They were eating a lot better than we were." Strategically, the base was perfectly located for attacks against American troops. It lies within striking range of several special-forces camps and a large U.S. air base in Kandahar. As an added advantage, it was just...
Wine experts know there are good years and bad years for Bordeaux. The Chinese feel the same way about babies. So as the Year of the Horse gives way to the Year of the Sheep, a popular resolution seems to be: suspend all efforts to procreate. Chinese tradition holds that kids born in sheep years are doomed to a life of baaaahd luck. And since most mainland couples can legally have only one child, they're not taking any chances; as Jan. 31, Chinese New Year's Eve, draws nigh, maternity wards are reporting deliveries in record numbers, with some...