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...public place in the world. Would Osama bin Laden have masterminded the 9/11 attacks without Arafat's having led the way? Doubtful. All citizens of the Western world (not just Israelis) should remember Arafat and the terrorist acts he inspired every time they have to go through a metal detector or take their shoes off to get on an airplane. Mark Feld New York City I was unhappy about the way the U.S. dealt with the death of Arafat. There should have been more respect and sympathy shown for the passing of the Palestinians' leader. The world community must recognize...
...public place in the world. Would Osama bin Laden have masterminded the 9/11 attacks without Arafat's having led the way? Doubtful. All citizens of the Western world (not just Israelis) should remember Arafat and the terrorist acts he inspired every time they have to go through a metal detector or take their shoes off to get on an airplane. Mark Feld New York City...
...baby in it cries for 30 sec. If the baby doesn't stop after about 5 min., a signal is sent to the parents via remote. A sensor goes off if the room gets too hot or cold. And for parents fearful of studden infant death syndrome, a motion detector indicates if the baby has stopped moving for too long...
...with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would indeed be fought on the question of trust, he said - not in one or another account of past events...
...there anything quite so stupid and time-wasting as the 1980s metal detector - the all but obsolete device that had gold diggers scouring beaches and suburban dumps for treasure? You can find yourself asking such questions with the work of Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow. And in the case of Diagonal Choir, 2000, his full-scale replica of a metal detector, made from PVC and epoxy and sprayed a ghostly white, you could ask: has anything as purposeful and beautifully crafted been shown in a gallery recently? Swallow, 29, is fascinated by the objects contemporary culture spits out. So when...