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...Abusing the News Your article "Arabian Knights" told of plans by al-Jazeera, the Arabic broadcast network, to create an English-language sister channel based in Qatar [May 30]. I'll grant that al-Jazeera has crossed the boundaries of ethical journalism by showing some of the most gruesome acts of terrorism. Unlike cnn or Fox News, however, al-Jazeera attempts to report both sides of any story on world affairs. The analysis presented by cnn and Fox News is shallow and biased. For example, these networks tell more about how Hamas' terror attacks affect Israelis and less about...
...danger of an Iranian blockade has lent special importance to Oman, which lies on the strait's southern shore. An Omani naval base at Ras Masandam monitors all ship movements through the channel, while the sultanate's fast and flashy Province-class patrol ships, each armed with eight radar-guided Exocet missiles, are on constant alert, occasionally shooing away Iranian intruders. Qaboos has also seen to it that Oman's 21,500-man volunteer army, navy and air force do not lack for equipment. He lavishes 46% of the national budget on the military and keeps it supplied with...
...Trump's site worry about the prospect of shadows, of crowded subways and buses. Yet Television City does not really seem so disruptive. The site, a defunct rail yard, is empty land; urban renewal rendered most of the adjoining blocks charmless years ago. Moreover, 8,000 new apartments should channel some of the gentrifying development pressure away from fragile Manhattan neighborhoods. The rooftop acreage is ingenious: the park will be above the elevated highway that runs along the Hudson, allowing pedestrians unimpeded views and a sense of riverfront connection...
...laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful beam of X-rays that could knock out a missile or warhead. Indeed, it may have been the Soviets' fear of SDI that pushed the Kremlin to show some flexibility on verification, in the hope of winning...
...quick acceptance by offering low-priced (average item: $33), reliable products culled from closeouts and liquidations. The network heavily pushes such items as porcelain music boxes and imitation diamonds called cubic zirconia. But Home Shopping has started a second channel, HSN 2, which offers trendier, more expensive products, probably because that is the lucrative direction its rivals are taking...