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...spend the next eight months and many millions of dollars extracting bodies in every stage of decomposition--it did not come as a complete surprise to those who study the death industry. For years critics have been calling for better state and federal oversight of such businesses. While the vast majority of funeral directors and crematory operators do their job honorably, there is plenty of room for abuse, and every so often a scandal spurs a flurry of proposed regulations. But in most cases they don't go anywhere or, if they do, they don't get enforced. Although cremation...
...than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing in biometric face identification has been hired to scan the irises of some pilgrims; a French company has the contract to digitally record their fingerprints. Intelligence operatives mingle with the crowds and thousands of soldiers and police are stationed along the vast area of the pilgrimage...
This consensus is not a “Cambridge effect”; we do not suffer from the delusions of being thousands of miles away from the loci of conflict. Even in Israel and Palestine—where excuses to make war abound on both sides—the vast majority of people is still in favor of compromise and peace. In spite of decades of dehumanization and state terror, the Palestinian people want to go back to the negotiating table. And in spite of all of those horrific suicide bombings, polls have shown that most Israelis still want...
...Saudi stability. But the long-term danger is creating a bin Laden Generation: legions of kids schooled in puritanical Islam, lacking jobs and harboring hatred for the U.S. and Israel - and for their own rulers too. "There is a clash between tradition and modernity," says Saudi researcher Mai Yamani. "Vast wealth has been spent on education, but it is a population that cannot function in this demanding global economy...
...shows that Israel takes up about one percent of the region—about the proportion of Rhode Island to the United States—the complaint against Israel is turned back against those who question its expanse: how much less land do the Jews deserve compared to the vast holdings of the Arabs? The Arabs have 21 countries; Islam rules in 40. Why then accuse the Jews of having too much when the Arabs consider all they have is still too little? Why does their obsession with the tiny Jewish enclave prevent them from attending to the manifold problems...