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...years since Ceduna declared war on the fruit fly. A pest in other states, this blight of fruit- and vegetable-growers the world over is rarely spotted in South Australia, with its encircling deserts providing a natural buffer zone. Even so, as Australia's biggest producer of wine grapes, the state is taking no chances...
...their part, the immigration service is trying to strike fear into contractors that serve as a buffer between workers and large companies. In April, the immigration service brought indictments against two temporary-labor companies in Canton, Ohio, a home-builder in Kentucky, and two other Kentucky companies, one of which supplied workers to Holiday Inn and other hotels...
...don’t yet know if I like it. Our group has managed to avoid such negligence for half a decade, even after we splintered off across the country for college. We did a lot more at the court than merely play basketball: We relied on it to buffer the passage of time—to nostalgically quote A. Bartlett Giamatti—to socialize, and to continually reconnect with our original gang. In the court’s custody, we went from talking about girlfriends, to eventually attaining girlfriends, to losing girlfriends, and then back again...
...Israelis have begun enforcing a rule that anyone in Lebanon within a kilometer of the border will be considered an enemy. They have sent bulldozers across the border to clear away trees, boulders, bunkers and other structures that impede their view into this swath of territory. Maintaining such a buffer zone will theoretically prevent Hizballah from returning to its positions along the frontier, shooting small arms across it, kidnapping more soldiers and easily gathering intelligence on Israeli army movements. But it won't stop the militia from firing rockets from deeper inside Lebanon. Israeli forces have concentrated on tracking...
...Rice's immediate mission is to discuss with Lebanese, European and moderate Arab leaders, as well as Israeli officials, the creation of a multinational force to hold a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon. But some U.S. officials acknowledge that disarming Hizballah is not going to be done soon or maybe ever. It is one thing to take out rocket launcher emplacements. It is another to stop the inflow of new fighters. Hizballah's recruiting posters are taken from the stream of horrific images showing constantly on cable news around the world...