Getting pummeled by three men with kicks, punches and jabs is not how I typically spend my vacation. Yet there I was on Military Base 8 defending myself from a trio of Israeli attackers
Krav Maga: The Israeli Self-Defense Technique Goes Global
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Turkey’s Election Offers a Last Chance to Integrate the Kurds
Sirri Sureyya Onder is neither a Kurd nor a politician. Yet, when the popular filmmaker and writer was approached by Turkey’s Kurdish party to run for an Istanbul parliamentary seat in Sunday’s elections, he felt he could not refuse.
Welcome to the Beginning of the End of the PC Era
Tech pundits have a bizarre habit of declaring products dead long before they’re actually goners.
Eradicate E. Coli, but Don’t Kill My Burger
Rarely has anything so small done so much to ruin so many hamburgers as E. coli bacteria has
Environment: Asia’s Lost Tribe of Aryans
An anthropologist finds a “living stone-age museum ” On a chilly September night in 1982, three men approached a police checkpoint at the village of Lotsum, along the tense cease-fire line between India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass
CRIME: Terror on Flight 49
Southern Airways of Atlanta prides itself on its ante bellum hospitality.
Are an Argentine Media Mogul’s Adopted Kids Desaparecidos?
This is the tale of the enmity of three women: the first is perhaps the richest in Argentina; the second is the President of the country; the third, a grandmother in search of the children of desaparecidos, the 30,000 or so mostly young people who disappeared in the military junta’s death camps from 1976 to 1983. The objects of their contention are two adopted children, a brother and sister, who stand to inherit an immense fortune — or see it shrink, if their genes betray a past that might help dramatically diminish their mother’s business empire
Golden Gate Bridge Suicide-Barrier Plan Inches Forward
It takes four seconds to fall the 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge to the waters of the San Francisco Bay below.
Lifting The Veil On Taliban Sex Slavery
Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza
Why France’s National Identity Debate Backfired
It was launched by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government three months ago with much hype and patriotic ebullition — a series of 100-plus town hall meetings across France to debate what it means to be French in the 21st century. And even after opponents on the left and right alike criticized the initiative as a Machiavellian way of casting immigrants, their French-born children and especially Muslims as a threat to France’s national identity, government officials defiantly took the initiative to term