Word: coding
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...largely of aging clerics and politicians, has one less card to play. The veterans have little relevance for an increasingly young population that barely remembers the war and is instead angry about unemployment and corruption?and seemingly consumed with testing the limits of a strictly enforced religious dress code without getting busted...
...made an initiative" to convert those chambers into mosques. In 1996, Awwad began renovating an underground hall called Solomon's Stables. The 4,000-sq-m hall was used by the Crusaders to stable their horses (it features in Dan Brown's best seller The Da Vinci Code as the place where the Knights Templars hatched their plots). When Awwad was done in early 2000, it was dubbed the Marwani Mosque. Awwad hauled thousands of tons of rubble from a massive new entrance to the mosque. He claims he merely pulled out fill from an existing Crusader ramp, but Israeli...
...math, you can change your tactics, but you pay a price for changing your principles and can gain capital by toughing out a fight, even if you lose. He cites the lessons he drew from his quixotic crusade as Governor of Texas to reform the state's tax code: in the end he feels he lost a battle and won a war, that voters credited him with attempting an impossible but worthy task. "I had earned political capital by spending it," Bush observed in his account of the showdown. He is less likely to cite the searing lesson of watching...
...their native language to encrypt walkie-talkie communications between American officers during World War II; in Tama, Iowa. Five months after being sent overseas, Sanache was captured by the Germans in Tunisia and spent 29 months in a Polish labor camp. The 2002 film Windtalkers focused on Navajo "code talkers" widely known for formulating the U.S. military code that remained classified and unbroken until 1968. But the Meskwaki were among 18 Native American tribes that served...
...thousand words," says FitzGerald, "we have quite lyrically dense songs." Just don't try singing them. Like the mystery rings found in '70s cereal boxes, "We send out messages, but it's for you to decode what they are," FitzGerald says. "It's a postmodern sort of thing - code, decode, recode." The sound is music to Heidi's ears...