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...debates over Muslim integration in the West lies the question, What's decent to do in public--display your sexuality or your faith? The French have no problem with bare breasts on billboards and TV but big problems with hijab-covered heads in public schools and government offices. Many Muslims feel just the opposite. As my friend suggested, Westerners believe that prayer is something best done in private, a matter for individual souls rather than state institutions. In the Islamic world, religion is out of the closet: on the streets, chanted five times daily from minarets, enshrined in constitutions, party...
...price spike is likely to filter down to gas pumps and home heating-oil tanks just as voters begin choosing presidential nominees, which presents a rare chance to force this uncomfortable issue to the top of the political agenda. And in fact we may be better at tackling this problem than we tend to believe, as Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, points...
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...anyone permitted to build where wildfires are inevitable? If people just have to live there, they should live in mobile homes that they could move. I know this wouldn't solve every problem and some homes might be lost, but it seems sensible to prohibit the construction of permanent structures in such areas...
...general who headed the U.S. Central Command when Musharraf became army chief in 1998, points out that the U.S. ban on military exchanges with Pakistan during the 1990s--because of Islamabad's push for nuclear weapons--helped radicalize many in the officer corps. Musharraf flagged this as a potential problem in his first meeting with Zinni. "You were beginning to see beards in the officer corps, which may signify more religious conservatism," Zinni recalls. Now that those officers are moving into senior positions, "it could very easily become a problem," he says...