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...summer afternoon in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, hundreds of young Muslim students sleep in the shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need...
Lethem nails the small stuff with such relentless perfection--Mad magazine, the Fantastic Four, graffiti tags, Car Wash, Star Wars--that we get the big picture too, the story of the 1970s told as a painful national adolescence. Soul begets funk begets rap. Cigarettes lead to weed, which gives way to cocaine, which leads to crack. As they get older, Mingus grows harder and quieter, Dylan nerdier but more confident. Yet a slender but tough strand still connects the boys, and they fight against all the usual suspects--racism, violence, their parents' failing marriages--to keep it. In the novel...
...Saudis possessing unlimited oil reserves as some people have pointed out. It is also the fact that the Saudis hold court over a lot of Muslim-based nations who keep Saudi Arabia in their highest esteem - religiously, financially and as a mediator for the West. Illyeanna La Torres Seattle, Wash...
...thousands of years and where women have markedly lower rates of breast cancer than in the U.S. But whether that's due to soy remains uncertain. "The cultures are just so different in so many ways, in diet and other lifestyle factors," says Mark Messina, a Port Townsend, Wash., nutritionist and an expert on soy. "By itself, the low breast-cancer rate in Asia doesn't provide much insight into the possible effect of soy on breast-cancer risk...
...apply an antiseptic like hydrogen peroxide to minor cuts and scrapes; that can actually delay healing. Hydrogen peroxide kills pretty much everything in its path, including any immune cells that your body has rushed to the wound. All that's needed to treat most of these injuries is to wash them gently with soap and water--making sure dirt or any other foreign material is flushed out--and then to cover with a sterile bandage. It's O.K. to use a topical antibiotic ointment like Neosporin the first...