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...kind of like a blow to our pride," said Ray Tsai, a 19-year-old sophomore studying biomedical engineering, an academic subject in which, he and others noted, Hopkins is rated more highly than Harvard...
Suicide bombing is one of the trickiest and least understood methods of modern warfare. The tactic has existed in various forms since the 17th century, when Dutch soldiers used gunpowder to blow themselves and their enemies up to avoid being taken prisoner in Taiwan. Since then, suicide attacks have steadily been on the rise, surging more than 300% since 2001, leaving defense experts and government officials struggling to effectively counter their devastating spread. In his new book Dying for Heaven, Georgetown University religion professor Ariel Glucklich describes the religious, social and psychological motivations behind this disturbing phenomenon, the frightening ways...
Read "Why We Blow Ourselves...
...struggle to keep a restaurant afloat, or you can be a screaming chef - or, as on Oxygen's new reality show, a "naughty" chef - and be a media star. Real estate agents, tattoo artists, cake decorators - the only thing standing between them and fortune is the willingness to blow a gasket once a week on cable...
...many of the German soldiers truly believed that the very existence of Germany - and therefore civilization itself - was at stake, and they fought with fanatic zeal. Unable to land a decisive blow, the two sides settled into a ghastly war of attrition that ate men and machines while giving back little in the way of actual territorial gains...