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...more (and at least a few against the big guns like Basso and Ullrich, when, and if, they can race again). Though Landis's tale doesn't include a return from cancer, his gutsy comeback, while enduring searing hip pain, gives it some Lance-like back-from-the-brink flair. Landis, an Armstrong domestique before a somewhat acrimonious split last year, had a social, not a medical, obstacle to contend with - his conservative Mennonite upbringing in Pennsylvania, where his parents eschewed television, dancing and especially Landis's bike habit. He's a little looser than Lance. "You'd want Lance...
...responsible in utilizing the resources of the planet. Jan Magnussen Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S. Preparedness Pays Off Re "Sharing the load" [july 3], on the progress made in providing assistance to Africa since last year's G-8 summit: When large populations are brought to the brink of crisis, international aid interventions are hugely expensive and logistically complicated. The solution is to give people the ability to be resilient in case natural disasters or armed conflicts occur. Preparedness does not require huge resources or sophisticated institutions. Small, steady cash transfers enable poor families to eat better and invest in equipment...
...launched a wide-scale invasion of Lebanon to destroy the PLO, Iran has been extending its influence inside Iraq and could end up the dominant foreign influence there when the U.S. ultimately withdraws. So confident - or reckless - is the new Iran that Tehran seems to be going to the brink with the West in a showdown over its nuclear ambitions, risking a possible preventive military strike by the U.S. or Israel...
...fate last week. Abducted by Palestinian militants at an army post in Israel and smuggled into Gaza on June 25, he might not have known that his captivity had set off a furious Israeli campaign to try to save him--and in the process, propelled both sides to the brink of full-scale warfare. While surveillance drones buzzed overhead, some 7,000 troops, 80 Israeli tanks and 180 armored personnel carriers massed at the border with Gaza, territory Israel evacuated less than a year ago. The Israelis seized Gaza's dilapidated airport to prevent Shalit's kidnappers from moving...
...political solution as the only chance for long-term stability. That's a difficult argument to sustain in the current climate of hostility, in which violence is escalating. While Shalit's family waits nervously to learn of his fate, Israelis and Palestinians are wondering whether they are nearing the brink - or already past...