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...formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything below standard. Uniformed men spray lemons with water, cover crates of coriander with moistened burlap to stop the greens wilting and scan bar codes on the end of each crate. Reliance will soon install air-conditioners to keep the warehouse at 18?C even when the outside temperature hits 40?C. "It's a luxury that not many people can afford," jokes one worker...
...they say are putting them out of business. "We are being strangled by the capitalists," one of the protesters told a local newspaper. "After Reliance began to pay the farmers more, we also now have to pay more. But our sales have dipped as customers are being lured by air-conditioned shops." In the nearby state of West Bengal, the government is likely to block licenses that would allow Reliance and Metro Cash & Carry to deal with farmers directly. "We will not allow anyone to disturb the [existing] chain," says Naren Chatterjee, chairman of West Bengal's State Marketing Board...
Dennis R. Slowinski, Captain U.S.A.F. ALI AL SALEM AIR BASE, KUWAIT...
...really over. After a heated, Iraq-themed on-air exchange with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Rosie O'Donnell won't return to The View. "I didn't really fit into the family, and now it's time for the foster kid to go back home," she said on ROSIE.COM, prompting friend Nora Ephron to write on THE HUFFINGTON POST, "I feel sad/ And full of woe/ I am going to miss/ My Ro." SCORE...
...triumph for Israel. Within hours of its start, the Egyptian air force had been destroyed in pre-emptive air strikes. Israeli troops sliced through Egyptian defenses in the Sinai Peninsula, moved against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and outflanked King Hussein's Bedouin army in the West Bank. In 132 hours, it was all over. Israel had more than tripled its territory, its forces moving into ancient Jerusalem, fulfilling the age-old quest of the Jews to return to their holy city. The war changed mental maps in the Middle East as much as it did the political landscape...