European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 k stars and stripes tuesday March 27 2007 Day snakes Are charmed no matter what the tune quote oath Day during desert storm we spent 11 months sitting in the desert with nothing so this is nothing still it would be Nice to be Able to Wash staff sgt David Earp on the Lack of creature comforts in Baghdad see Story on Page 6 list coming soon on did March 27 the bridesmaid Candy children of men Happy feet the Pursuit of happiness Van Wilder 2 the Rise of Taj april 3 Charlottes web the Good Shepherd Volver act coming soon scene Onsum far exploring health myths today in stripes Abby 20 american roundup1617 classified2124 comics1820 crossword19 faces12 horoscope18 letters14 opinion15 sports2432 weather13 says Marty q when Snake charmers from Asia or Northern Africa use their flute to Charm a cobra what music do they play a Doest matter because the snakes cant hear it but simply hold them otdjuiftc1 on Otka Nul guard Sway ing to the but True flu lists body Bill Sones and Rich Sones Phe headless males make great lovers cobras Are favor ites since there big dangerous and when excited rear upright spread their hoods by expanding their ribs and Sway fortunately for the charmers the snakes strikes Are relatively slow and usually can be evaded q if ants get into the Micro wave will their Goose be cooked act a another Way to ask this at a concert Hall can you hear equally Well from All the seats certainly not because wave interference patterns create dead spots in the Hall hold that thought a woman wrote in to the guardian of England to say that when removing some Well cooked food from her Micro wave she noticed ants crawling around inside the oven with All the warnings about rage to sur Vive one thing working in the ants favor is that they dont have much liquid in their bodies so the microwaves which Cook meats by heating their water Content would act More slowly on ants than on people that could buy the poor ants Sphie time Josaye by seeking but the dead spots Natur Auy ovens have them just like concert Halls creat ing those annoying cold pockets in cooked foods the ants probably Are quite uncomfortable when they Are bathed in microwave radiation so they try to get away if they find a dead spot they feel bet Ter so they radiation leaks from ovens that Are not Well shielded How did totally unshielded ants Mantay there and survive q just married you carve a wonderful initiated heart four feet up the trunk of a Young tree in the Back Yard on your 50th anniversary assuming you both get inv Lucky How High up will the heart have moved a this happened to me once when i found the initials of my Cousin and sweetheart carved in a tree out in the Woods says Ore gon state University Forest ecologist Steve Radosevich i later Cut it Down and gave it to them As a 30th anniversary present answer trunks of Trees add length not at then base but out of the Apical Meristem located at their top so the heart stays at its original height it will get wider however due to radial expansion of the trunk shifting and growing just As old True hearts grow Send strange questions to Brothers Bill and Rich at what up with that explaining customs from around the world q is Sadr City the neighbourhood in Baghdad really named after Muntada a Sadr the antics shiite cleric whats up with that a actually no it is named after his father Ayatollah Mohammed Sadek a Sadr who was an outspoken shiite Leader in a country run by sunnis including Saddam Hussein the father was assassinated in 1999 with two of his sons the younger a Sadr was about 25 at the time the deaths were blamed on Hussein and sparked uprisings in sever Al cities that were tamped Down by Hussein forces the Young a Sadr originally was seen As a lightweight just a  com pared with his father but he created a net work of supporters and emerged As a leading Symbol of shiite Defiance and Militancy Days before Baghdad officially fell in april 2003 his forces in what is now Sadr City Rose up raiding police stations and weapon supplies the neighbourhood had been named Saddam City and they renamed it Sadr City after Muntada Alsa drs father the Young Alsa drs Mili Tia known As the Mahdi army has had control of Sadr City a poor crowded area of about 2 million peo ple a Sadr has taken a Dif Ferent tone in recent weeks the Mahdi army appeared to have set aside its weapons under government pres sure to lend support to a plan to quell violence in Baghdad and this month the Mili Tia agreed to let the govern ment provide Security for shiite pilgrims heading to Karbala South of Baghdad to Mark the 7thcentury death of the Prophet muhammads grandson the militia has provided Protection in the past but hundreds were killed making the trip this month got a question about going son in the Mideast email stripes at photo illustration by Siegfried and stripes puzzles by Papp com i 1 difficulty medium yesterdays 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