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...media often raise the specter of fundamentalist terrorism, despite the peaceful and tolerant nature of the Uighurs' brand of Islam. Young people are being weaned off the Uighur tongue and blocked from attending prayers at mosques. Historic districts in storied Silk Road cities like Kashgar and Khotan are being torn down and replaced with drab housing blocks. "In the face of China's modernity project," says Sakamaki, "Uighur culture is being diluted more and more." (Read "Why the Uighurs Feel Left Out of China's Boom...
...adopt some of the opposition's program, including arrangements for genuine power-sharing by Afghanistan's diverse ethnic groups. Even so, Afghanistan's flawed elections have now become a major drag on Obama's new strategy, which just six months ago seemed to offer real hope for that war-torn land. It need not have turned out this...
...institution. The War Between the States became the War Between the Moseses. Slaveholders cited a bevy of biblical passages - Abraham acquires slaves; Moses invites slaves to the first Passover; Jesus does nothing to free slaves - to claim the Bible endorsed slavery. The book that joined Americans together was torn asunder by slavery. (See the top 10 Jesus films...
Valode is torn between two clashing theories. The first suspects the committee cynically sought to lift the award's profile and restore some of its star-quality status, "and what better way of doing that than to give it to the most popular man on the planet today?" Valode asks. Conversely, Valode says the committee may have gotten pragmatic by making a fundamental change in who it sees as most likely to promote and obtain peace today. "Previously, it was the charities, the non-governmental organizations, the brave diplomats who dared to believe," he says. "Now, perhaps the committee...
...skull sits on the top vertebra "just like Atlas holding the world on his shoulders; that is what C1 does," says Bhatia, referring to the anatomical designation of the vertebra. In Wilhite's case, all of the ligaments that hold the skull on top of C1 were "completely torn" and there were small fractures to C1 itself. "It is very unusual today to have three healthy young people die in a car crash," says Bhatia, 36. "They were hit with an amazing amount of force." Regarding Wilhite's internal decapitation, Bhatia says, "Think about the weekly collisions in the National...