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...Mecca and Medina. He worked to open education to women and in 1990, in a move that fueled a backlash among fundamentalists, agreed to be host to 500,000 U.S. troops during the first Gulf War. But his tolerance for the extreme brand of Islam known as Wahhabism helped spawn the Islamic holy war led by Saudi native Osama bin Laden against both the West and the Saudi royal family...
...removed is well documented. In 1999, for example, when a deconstruction crew took a wrecking ball to the Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River, the results stunned even those who had lobbied for the dam's removal. Important fish species that used to swim from the ocean to spawn upstream--Atlantic salmon, alewives, sturgeon and shad--didn't just come back, marvels Pete Didisheim, advocacy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, "they surged back." The next year, almost a million alewives were massing in the river. Fish are also rebounding in Virginia's Rappahannock River after...
After the war, political neutrality, social stability and cultural heritage helped spawn a popular aphorism: Austria's greatest postwar feat was to convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German. Says Vienna Psychiatrist Harald Leupold-Löwenthal: "Waldheim is not such a surprising case. He adjusted, as many did, and then forgot the truth...
...choices of Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love's new, larger body "are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast." Chloe Sevigny proves "high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan's sewing machine...
Shapiro may be exaggerating the public's docuphobia. Consider how quickly the home audience tired of sitcom verities and embraced the supposedly factual dramas laid out in Survivor and its spawn. If reality TV can take over, why not reality...