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...scared by violence. All I was thinking was, "Go, Simba, go!" It helped that my parents were there to talk to me about the movie. The scary scenes in Disney movies make them more exciting! Without them, the movies would be DUUUULLLL! MELISSA MARANTO, AGE 10 Lake Bluff...
...expect to see multiple species of robots appearing over the next few decades. There will be those that will be our appliances as well as those toward which we will feel more and more empathy. One day the latter will call our bluff and ask us to treat them as well (or as badly) as we treat one another. If they are unlucky, their prayers just may be answered...
...proposed United-US Airways merger, but a report that honchos at No. 2 American Airlines and No. 4 Northwest have been in contact about a deal of their own - which would create a new top dog mega-carrier with nearly 30 percent market share - smells suspiciously like a bluff. "Obviously, there's a fever in the industry to consolidate for fear of getting left behind by United," says TIME business writer John Greenwald. "But it seems like the government would never allow this one. It doesn't make sense. It'd be like Time Warner buying Disney...
...Having called Syria's bluff by withdrawing from Lebanon without an agreement with Damascus, Israel is now forced to find a way of preventing rocket attacks from Hezbollah or dissident Palestinian groups. It has warned that any attacks will be met with overwhelming force in the form of air strikes - and it has made very clear that it will include Syria's extensive military installations in Lebanon on the target list. But Israel's hasty retreat left a lot of weapons in the hands of local militants who're not necessarily under Hezbollah's (or any body else's) discipline...
...neighbor. Israel's Lebanon dilemma had for most of the past decade been a key bargaining chip in Syria's efforts to negotiate a peace agreement involving Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Israel's unilateral retreat from Lebanon has now deprived Damascus of that leverage, calling Syria's bluff. Moreover, it's beginning to raise the question among Lebanese of what purpose is served by Syria's presence, which has been presented as a defense against Israel...