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...peace and tranquillity where barely a car bomb disturbs the perfumed silence - or so they say). These days, mock outrage is used by every side of every dispute. It's fair enough to criticize something your opponent said while secretly thanking your lucky stars that he said it. The fuss over this MoveOn.org ad is something else: it is the result of a desperate scavenging for umbrage material. When so many people are clamoring for a chance to swoon that they each have to take a number and when the landscape is so littered with folks lying prostrate and pretending...
...Shakespeare (or maybe Bacon or possibly De Vere) asked, "What's in a name?" The star-crossed lovers still die, there will always be something rotten in the state of Denmark, no matter who wrote the plays. So why all the fuss? Both sides argue that knowing the identity of the man behind Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest is essential to understanding them. "Our interpretation of Shakespeare's works would be entirely different if we knew who wrote them," says Bill Rubinstein, history professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and an academic adviser for the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition...
...have turned to militants of their own, choosing candidates of the Islamist Hamas movement in local and legislative elections. One Hamas official in Hebron scoffed at the latest eviction, saying," This is Olmert trying to show the Americans that he's doing a good job." But having seen the fuss within the army that erupted over clearing out two families, Olmert will have had a sobering reminder of the challenges that face him in removing tens of thousands of West Bank settlers in order to achieve peace with the Palestinians...
...what's the fuss about? Sepak takraw looks and scores like volleyball, except players use anything but their hands to get the ball over the net. If the ball hits the ground on the opponent's side, or if the return is hit out of bounds, a point is scored. There are three players per side, though variations exist. But the game's telegenic oomph (and there's plenty) comes from sustained volleys, deadly serves-the hard plastic ball reaches speeds up to 100 km/h-and the cartwheel spike, a power move of agility and aggression where a player backflips into...
...taught to aim for perfection," says Anthony Rodgers, director of the clinical trials research unit at the University of Auckland. But now Rodgers and others are preparing to show that, when it comes to preventing heart attack and stroke, the way forward for doctors may be to fuss less over drugs and dosages and instead prescribe, for everyone, a single, multi-function pill...