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Pondering this resilience of the capitalist system, I encounter, inside the Selfridges department store, an Arab-themed café offering its customers a “Bedouin” experience: on colorful cushions in a tent-like structure, young women surrounded by their shopping bags smoke hookah pipes. At this most superficial of levels, the commercial complex is able to combine Islamic and Western elements without any of the problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that...
...report, which is part of a project commissioned by the government of Kuwait and funded by the United Nations, examined several factors that may have contributed to the increased death rates, including exposure to smoke from oil fires...
...research team, led by SPH Senior Lecturer on Environmental Science John S. Evans, also concluded that smoke exposure alone could not fully account for Kuwaiti nationals’ abnormally high mortality rates...
Kuwait is now seeking compensation from the UNCC for premature deaths from smoke exposure, medical treatment and disability costs resulting from PTSD, and medical treatment costs for mine and ordnance victims, Evans said...
...objections; it was the Democrats who insisted on a Cabinet-level post for Homeland Security, over Bush's objections; it was the Democrats who insisted on making airport security a federal responsibility, over Bush's objections. Although the President has confounded the rest of the populace with his smoke-and-mirrors show on a range of other issues, Americans have so far refused to be misled on Social Security. Leigh Hebbard Wilson, North Carolina...