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Silence isn't typical of Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated...
...realized he?d be quickly overshadowed in a crowded Democratic field. Both men have positions on many issues (education, gay rights, the environment) that are virtually indistinguishable. At least their campaign styles are different: While Bloomberg seeks to capitalize on his outsider status ("A leader, not a politician," blare his campaign ads), Green embraces his years as a local politician...
...such stories seem comical, there is nothing amusing about the raging anti-Western and anti-Jewish sermons that often blare out of the kingdom's mosques. Hard-liners in the pervasive religious establishment pose an absolute obstacle to liberalism, whether barring the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution or classes in figurative painting. An obsessive suspicion of Israel permeates Islamic teaching, Saudi-style. Earlier this year, a leading imam issued a fatwa against Pokemon, the Japanese animated series, after rumors spread that the name of one of the most popular characters, Pikachu, was a wily code...
...beat us," he says. Upon his release two months later, Sherki fled to Peshawar, Pakistan, and joined a band that plays at weddings. Those who cannot escape devise other ways to rebel. Shopkeepers sell cassettes on the black market, musicians bury their instruments for retrieval later, and drivers blare their stereos in remote areas. In a tiny flat in Kabul, with the shutters drawn, Naveeda crouches before a kerosene lamp and whispers the lyrics of a popular love song to her family--softly, so that no one will report her. "We're like dead people," says her brother Nadir. "When...
...more people use hearing aids? For most adults, a decline in hearing occurs so gradually as to be imperceptible--except to family and friends who chafe at having to repeat themselves or at being subjected to the blare of a television turned up to accommodate their loved one's poor hearing. Some discover their disability during a physical exam. Fred Smith, 92, a retired San Francisco businessman, got his wake-up call in the Navy. He was taken off sea duty in the Pacific and transferred back to the States during World War II after he failed a hearing test...