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...display of American power. Keeping the issue of Iraq under the U.N. umbrella, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME recently, "would remove the idea that there are ulterior motives for whatever actions that are being taken against Iraq, as an effort to put Iraq under the thumb of imperialism...
...Club held its monthly meetings. Inspired by her fellow banjo fanatics, Brown began to play more and more often, jamming in parking lots. She even mastered the difficult three-finger style of her first inspiration, Earl Scruggs, using metal picks on the index and middle fingers and a plastic thumb pick for a unique sound...
...these is Goldfish and Palette, 1914. That Cubist-inspired trestle of black strokes on the right is Matisse, holding a white palette through which his phallic white thumb protrudes. But the real importance of this work and others from about this time lies in the sweeping "background" that occupies most of the canvas. In this one, broad areas of blue, white and black dissolve deep space into allover optical force fields, a gesture that opened the way to the color-field abstraction of a half-century later. Picasso replied with Harlequin, a self-portrait as clown, painted in a moment...
...school, no food." And from his 1998 hit Todii, a question, originally about aids, but now so relevant to all of the country's crises, whether political, economic, natural or spiritual: "What shall we do?" In Zimbabwe, the answer has always been to make music. Traditionally, the mbira (thumb piano) was used to summon spirits for help. Music was also Zimbabwe's oral newspaper, and the sung editorials often spurred action. In the '70s, when Ian Smith's whites-only government ruled what was then Rhodesia, says Mapfumo, "music inspired youngsters to fight that oppressive regime." Zimbabwe is independent...
...chemicals, toxins and proteins that circulate in our blood. Over 25 years ago, notes Louis Slesin, editor of New York-based Microwave News, U.S. army and government scientists showed that microwaves from sources other than phones could open up the BBB. "This stuff sticks out like a sore thumb," says Slesin, "but nobody in the mobile-phone industry has wanted to touch it." They may no longer have a choice. With a series of studies beginning in 1992, the Lund group has shown that in laboratory rats, at least, mobile-phone radiation opens up this barrier so molecules...