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...days after Van Gogh's death, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's government promised a series of new security measures, as well as proposals to strip extremists of their Dutch passports, deport radical imams, and close down radical mosques. Dutch police believe Mohammed B. was part of a terror cell called the Hofstad Netwerk, whose alleged leader, Syrian Redouan al-Issar, preached at Mohammed B.'s home. Around a dozen alleged members of the cell have been picked up so far, including Samir Azzouz, a Moroccan arrested in the Netherlands this year for allegedly plotting attacks on government and public...
...representative of a generation of Jewish extremists who have taken up residence in the occupied territories and have come to see the government of Ariel Sharon as a threat to their way of life. Angrily dismissive of Sharon's plan to withdraw them from their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, they say they will resist with force. Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service believes that several dozen young settlers consider themselves bound by religious duty to protect the land of Israel, even if it means fighting against the state. "They don't give a damn about...
...launched last year by Scott Smith, 46, a former Curves franchise owner who wanted to adapt for men that company's quickie regimen. Today Smith counts 86 Blitz locations in the U.S. and Canada. (There's even a franchise in Guatemala.) The gyms, many of them found in strip malls, are set up like mock boxing rings, with members moving between machines and punching bags at the sound of a bell that rings every 30 seconds. "I don't care what your size or strength is," says Smith. "At the end of two 10-minute circuits, you'll wear yourself...
...always easy to say what. Whatever these games "mean" to the people who play them--whom, ah, ever they may be--they mean a lot. Fifteen years ago, video games were barely more than a cottage industry, if by cottage you mean the sticky back corner of a strip-mall bowling alley. Last year game sales hit $7 billion, in the same exclusive ballpark as movies (about $9 billion). We should count ourselves lucky. The video game is a brand-new medium, and we get to see it evolve from the very beginning...
Esteemed employee that he is, Hanson hopes to make the game stall, crash or buzz like a bad toaster. And, yes, he wreaks this havoc for a living, working as many as seven days a week in a Chicago-area office the size of a strip mall...