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...SYMPTOMS Initially, very similar to those of the flu--fever, muscle aches, nausea and cough. After several days, as the immune system tries but fails to rid the body of the bacteria, more severe signs appear, including difficulty breathing, high fever and shock...
...Taliban's 55th Brigade at Mazar-i-Sharif. The brigade's commanders come mostly from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and its members are Arabs who were reeled into Afghanistan by bin Laden to train in terrorist camps. The "Afghan Arabs" are the Taliban's elite militants and ideological shock troops, sometimes dispatched to cajole reluctant elements of the Taliban's 45,000-man army to fight against the infidels. (Slackers have been known to get shot.) After serving time in Afghanistan, many members of the 55th pursue careers as international terrorists working for the al-Qaeda empire. "The 55th...
Americans have learned through bitter experience to associate trouble in the Middle East and the Muslim world with pain at the gas pump--from the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and oil embargo to the 1979 oil shock after the Iranian revolution and the price jump that followed Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...ambiguity, but works only as well as the attempted ambiguity concerning Kevin Kline’s sexual preference in In & Out. The audience has already figured it out in the first few frames of the movie and is ready to move on. There is hardly room to shock people with a Keiser Soze ending...
...even her father when she is “relaxed and pleased about something.” Lewis argues that it’s not unusual for women to smoke cigars. “Women have been smoking cigars in a socially acceptable way for a while. The shock factor is definitely gone,” she says...