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When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph of smoke rising over Beirut, side by side with the unaltered version of the same scene, the first thing I thought was: which is supposed to be the scary one? If I saw either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps...
...hardly an exhibit in the Beck Museum-housed in a hangar and shed beside his home at Mareeba, 60 km west of Cairns-that the retired farmer doesn't have a story about: from the recoilless cannon built for a Russian czar to the empty 250-kg chemical bomb from Australia's World War II stockpile, to the Vietnam-era Centurion tank...
...With the road cut by the Israelis, Warrant Officer Martin Lionel, the convoy commander, studies his military map, seeking an alternative route to Teir Harfa. Many of the roads marked on his map show hand-drawn red crosses. He explains that they represent bomb craters where Israeli jets have rendered the road impassable. "Every day we add new crosses," he says...
...newsman BOB WOODRUFF is also making strides, after suffering serious head and upper-body injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq in January. The former co-anchor of the network's World News Tonight, who continues to spend time in cognitive rehab, participates in morning editorial calls, and last month recorded a voice-over for a rebroadcast of a Nightline report about North Korea that he worked on last year. "He's doing great," says an ABC News spokeswoman. "He is putting his efforts toward coming back to work...
...durable Israeli-Hizballah cease-fire. In the meantime, Israel and Hizballah are busy decoding each other's messages, which usually come in the form of a missile or air strike. Into the fourth week of fighting, the two combatants have, somewhat surprisingly, certain understandings. "They don't bomb Lebanon's power stations, and we don't bomb Haifa's petrochemical factories," a Hizballah official told TIME late last week. But the status quo could be shaken up if Israeli troops, above, continue to occupy southern Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force can be formed. "If the Israelis don't lift...