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GRECO-TURKISH TENSIONS Turkey banned the site for three days after a Greek user allegedly posted a clip calling the founder of modern Turkey--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk--a homosexual. The stir caused a virtual video war to break out, as Greeks and Turks posted YouTube clips insulting one another...
...from the child dying of malaria to the village without clean water, conditions in Africa are an affront to every value we Europeans have ever seen fit to put on paper. We see in Somalia and Sudan what happens if more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...
...last chorus / I don’t want to bore us” (“Greedy Awful People”), others can be just plain silly. Speaketh Iggy the sage on “I’m Fried”: “Deep fried / Re-fried / Stir-fried / I’m fried.” One wishes the band would have written better music and lyrics, but they were probably too “Fried...
...tofu inspired: Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin meets with a vegetarian committee regularly, and has worked with Mollie Katzan, a vegetarian cookbook author whom Martin claims is a “great resource to open up options.” From HUDS’ tofu walnut broccoli stir-fry to Felipe’s grilled vegetable burrito, vegetarians at Harvard have plenty to munch on—and now they have a community should the recipes ever...
...breast cancer. African-American women, Retsky found, tend to get breast cancer at a younger age than their Caucasian counterparts, exposing them to the negative effects of breast cancer surgery that he has theorized. Retsky’s controversial hypothesis linking breast cancer relapses to surgery caused a moderate stir in the scientific community at the time of its publication in the International Journal of Surgery, drawing letters to the editor which ultimately put Retsky on his present course, One of the letters, from a lawyer in Tennessee, reported a common belief among the African-American community that tumors should...