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...third period, Rolecek’s goal held up for the win. “It’s a little bit of everything—we’re blocking a lot of shots, we’re spending less time in our zone, our penalty kill has been much better, and our goaltending has been very good,” Donato said. “Those all add up to a better brand of defensive hockey for us.” Yale drew first blood when defenseman Brad Mills netted a power-play score...
...long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a Manhattan grocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a nonorganic apple (which was labeled conventional, since that sounds better than "sprayed with pesticides that might kill you"). It shouldn't have been a tough choice--who wants to eat pesticide residue?--but the organic apples had been grown in California. The conventional ones were from right here in New York State. I know I've been listening to too much npr because I started wondering: How much Middle Eastern...
Alaa, 29, left Baghdad in January, a few days after Saddam Hussein was hanged. A group of gunmen had smashed in his front door and ransacked the house. Alaa, a Shi'ite television producer who was at work at the time, believes that Sunni militants wanted to kill him for covering Saddam's trial. And so, as hundreds of Iraqis do each day, Alaa decided to pack up his things and flee. At the time he wasn't sure where he was going or who would take him in. Now he finds himself sharing a two-room apartment with people...
...Stockholm. "We don't know who is who here," says Alaa. In a Swedish government asylum office, he was shocked to see Iraqis in "long beards and short pants" who looked like extremist Sunnis. "I'm scared that among those people who Sweden helps are crazy Salafis who might kill me," he says...
...Knots of Unjust Suffering." But Vietnamese officials objected, saying it was improper to "equally" pray for soldiers in the U.S.-backed South Vietnam army, not to mention American soldiers. "The spirit of the Vietnamese people doesn't agree with the idea of praying for foreign imperialists coming to kill millions of Vietnamese," says Bui Huu Duoc, director of the government's Religious Affairs Committee for Buddhism. So Nhat Hanh agreed to change the name to simply "Grand Requiem For Praying," though his supporters say the spirit of the ceremony remains the same...