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...Still, the Israeli offensive is likely to boost Palestinian political support for Hamas and to further weaken Abbas. In the weeks preceding the strikes, Israeli security officials warned that there is no end game, because a limited campaign would be unlikely to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, and a full-blown ground invasion would find Israel forced to reoccupy the territory on a long-term basis...
Shin Abe doesn't find it odd that the picturesque little Japanese town of Kuzumaki, where he has lived all his life, generates some of its electricity with cow dung. Nor is the 15-year-old middle school student blown away by the vista of a dozen wind turbines spinning atop the forested peak of nearby Mt. Kamisodegawa. And it's old news to Abe that his school gets 25% of its power from an array of 420 solar panels located near the campus. "That's the way it's been," he shrugs. "It's natural...
...social drinkers may indulge too heavily. That's the reason 40% of all road deaths during the Christmas and New Years season involve at least one alcohol-impaired driver, compared to 28% the rest of the year. Those numbers ought literally to be sobering, but for some drinkers - full-blown alcoholics in particular - they...
Tamberino’s mother struggles to send her and her brother to private schools because no scholarships are available. Tamberino didn’t want to strain her family’s finances any further, and she said that she was “blown away” when she heard about Harvard’s financial aid program during her junior year, naming it as a key reason she applied...
...compounded by the fact that the cops who arrested Ahmed failed to check with the Jammu and Kashmir police to see whether Ahmed's claims to be an agent were true; instead they divulged details of his arrest and identity to the media, resulting in his cover being blown, his family being put at risk, and the Indian intelligence community losing a valuable asset. (See pictures of Mumbai picking up the pieces...