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From Reconstruction, Kenza Oumlil (Concordia): Discourses of the Veil in Al-Jazeera English; Brian Winkenweder (Linfield): The Homometrics of eInterviews; and Rhonda Dass (MSU): Avoiding the Peep Show: Talking from within the Tattoo Community. A handy little chart will tell you everything you need to know to survive a zombie attack as well as many other attacks such as werewolves and vampires. New research acknowledges that money doesn’t buy happiness all on its own purchasing power, but rather happiness comes indirectly from the higher status money provides. Michael Washburn reviews Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront by Nathan Ward. It's hard out here for a snitch: Despite a host of whistleblower-protection laws, the feds rarely punish bosses who retaliate. From Alternative Right, Srdja Trifkovic on the meaning of the myth: Srbrenica, Islam, and Western Decadence (and a response and a reply and a response). Two weeks before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the huge, trouble-plagued BP refinery in the coastal town of Texas City spewed tens of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the skies. To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant — yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers. A look at 6 completely legal ways the cops can screw you.