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What kinds of changes are the Saudis making? Education Minister Mohammed al-Rasheed told TIME that the government had scratched the entire fifth chapter of a 10th-grade text that described how Muslims and non-believers were historical enemies. An excerpt detailing "ways to show hatred to the infidel" charges that "it is forbidden to show happiness during the holidays of the infidels." The minister noted that three Koranic messages encouraging tolerance would be included in Saudi texts. One of them says, "Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your faith nor to drive...
Lessin said he wants users to post more creative items and services, noting that most of the items posted so far have been text books...
Franken, at the time a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, sent the April letter to numerous Washington officials, including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, cabinet members and others, and features the text in his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right...
...Hatha yoga--inspired exercises designed to fight flight fatigue. The guide gives flyers ways to stretch and relax at each leg of the journey, from security to baggage claim. Exercises include Heavy-Luggage Hand Stretches, Red-Eye Foot Flexes and Deplaning Pep Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension). The stretches are effective, yet the book's attitude stays light (a benefit of the Mile High Thigh Tone is that it develops "sexy stewardess legs...
...Text becomes architecture in "Quimby the Mouse...