Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...
...side-effects may prove to be impossible. But Sheik Mahmoud Abu Obayed of Cairo's Al Azhar University says Muslims should strive for industrialization with "careful selectivity. We must choose what is suitable for us and reject what is harmful." Anwar Ibrahim, head of Malaysia's Islamic Youth Movement, puts it another way: "Does modernization mean having liquor factories? If so, then we are against modernization. Does modernization mean electronics factories? Then we are for modernization. There's nothing in Islam against development, but such development must have a moral basis. It must be just, not exploitative...
...member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman. David was a herdsman. I, too, was commissioned for prophethood while...
...right word for these kids-a first draft of a word rather than a finished word, hopeful, awkward, the kind of word that experts in youth guidance adore. But-who can be against positiveness? Or Dan Voll? Or those who, in all their positiveness, devote themselves to children, as does Terry Giroux...
Bobby Garwood's Viet Nam saga began in Indianapolis in 1963, when the shy, slight youth dropped out of high school and, at the age of 17, enlisted in the Marines. Two years later, Garwood went to Viet Nam with the Third Marine Division, which was based in Danang. On Sept. 28, 1965, he disappeared while driving a Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question...