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...teachings of Islam, and how angry she was that her government did not support her. Students and teachers from both the men's and women's schools have embarked on an antivice campaign in the capital, shutting down video and music shops for promoting un-Islamic behavior. Twice now, the female students have abducted alleged prostitutes, saying that if the government doesn't cleanse the capital of sin, they will. "A man goes to medical school and becomes a doctor," says Aman. "We go to a madrasah, so we must practice Islam. But the government is not letting...
...second day as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown warned Britons, "We face a serious and continued security threat to our country," and his new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has already twice chaired the government's emergency response committee, Cobra. As investigators hurry to try to sift fact from a distracting mess of theories, they'll hope that Agent Luck remains on their side...
...greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred with Billy Martin in TV ads for Miller Lite. Of his medical adventures, Shoulders said...
...downstream. Across the state, peanuts, pumpkins, peaches, berries, cotton crops, corn, watermelons, are all flourishing, according to the Texas Cooperative Extension service. Good news that is only heard during the ag report on the rural radio stations, while we city dwellers simply complain about having to mow the lawn twice a week and wear insect repellent to collect the mail...
...force the Western-backed Lebanese government to abandon its support for the tribunal. UNIFIL officials have been concerned for months that the peacekeepers could become caught up in Lebanon's instability, with the chief threat coming from al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, has twice referred to UNIFIL in recent months. In February, he described the peacekeepers as "international crusader forces" and urged his "brothers in Islam and Jihad in Lebanon" to attack them. Arrested militants of Fatah al-Islam, which includes jihadist veterans of the Iraq insurgency and is suspected of ties to Syrian military...