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...time to drop by is 3 p.m. every Saturday, when the Staar provides free food to all drinkers. Tread carefully, though: Squaronians like to keep to themselves, scaring off strangers with thousand-yard stares. Perhaps that's just as well. As one former resident who managed to escape its pull said, the square is "self-contained, self-righteous, fascinating, and a fire escape to nowhere...
...authorities in Baghdad and Washington played an active but largely hidden role in Allawi's ascent.) "He will be a puppet for the people who gave him the job," al-Dulame says. If the U.S. wants Allawi to succeed, it may have little choice but to let him pull his own strings. --By Aparisim Ghosh/Baghdad
Another factor affecting quality is the brains of your camera. A digital camera needs to have enough processing power to transform those raw data into a beautiful picture. The quality of your camera's lens is also important to ensure that your picture is properly focused and to pull in enough light to get a good exposure. "If you have a bad lens, the number of megapixels doesn't mean anything," says Atsushi Tashiro, a product-development manager for Fujifilm...
...Anyone turned off by the screaming, exploding in-your-face graphics of mainstream comicbook fare should seek the solace of Seth's "Clyde Fans Book One." Pull your rocker onto the back porch, or spread your blanket on the roof, turn on the fan and enjoy the quiet...
This renewed willingness to pull for the Man may reflect America's changed role in the world. We're no longer the freewheeling adversary of gray, monolithic communism but rather the world's only superpower. We are the house, and we set the odds...