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...ordered him to translate his 10,000-book library into Arabic for their perusal, and endure plagues of rats, snakes, locusts, mosquitoes, bees and - as part of a mysterious campaign to force him out - the occasional dead animal dangling from a fruit tree in his garden. And that stuff was easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming...
...King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools in Rio Grande City, Texas, along the Mexican border, students staged lunchroom protests, hanging signs that read NO MORE DIET and WE WANT TO EAT COOL STUFF--PIZZA, NACHOS, BURRITOS...
...most adults over 60. New fMRI studies at Toronto's Rotman Research Institute suggest that as we get older, we have more trouble "turning down background thoughts when turning to a new task," says Rotman senior scientist and assistant director Cheryl Grady. "Younger adults are better at tuning out stuff when they want to," says Grady. "I'm in my 50s, and I know that I can't work and listen to music with lyrics; it was easier when I was younger...
...Shortly after she discovered the accounting errors, CEO Jeff Skilling resigned. "He's a smart man," Watkins said. "The stuff I stumbled across - he knows it," she recalled thinking. "He knows it's bad." She described writing her infamous memo warning that the company was in danger and discussing it with Ken Lay in a 30-minute meeting in his office one week after Skilling left...
...moments.“Rehearsing the sexual moments has been really entertaining,” Dorin says. “It’s astonishing how difficult it can be to choreograph a decent kiss, especially when it seemed like the actors in question were discovering all of this stuff for the first time. So I had them start with the basics, back massages, holding hands, and such, and then something clicked. Now they’re all over each other.”Though Dorin has greatly enjoyed his experience with Harvard theater, he does not plan to continue...