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...their arms and their leader be removed as conditions for any diplomatic progress," writes Benn. "He made it clear that the Israel Defense Forces will remain in the territories for a long time, and asked that the international community take care of aiding their inhabitants." Thus, while Sharon is content for Powell and the Quartet to discuss reforming the Palestinian Authority and providing humanitarian aid to ordinary Palestinians - and even for foreign minister Shimon Peres to hold similarly limited discussions with PA representatives other than Arafat - he has no plans for renewed political dialogue with the Palestinians, at least...
...corn," says pastor Rod Anderson. "But I have a congregation full of middle-management and technology professionals, and they are experiencing the pain of downsizing." Roughly a quarter of all churches offer job programs--mostly small, informal groups that meet once or twice a month and limit their religious content to an opening or concluding prayer. Brian Ray of the nonprofit Crossroads Career Network in Atlanta has helped 27 churches launch such programs, and plans to expand to 45 by the end of the year. Says Ray: "There's an opportunity to marry your personal faith and your work...
...level associated with the middle of an expansion. If you are a baseball fan, it is almost like a team in midseason form on opening day. Even though wage growth has gone down, from 4% to 3.2%, there is still wage growth, and consumers are reasonably content, and so they are still spending...
...technology has blossomed, it has expanded the ways to exploit intellectual property and added greater value," says Joseph Beard, a professor at St. John's University School of Law. Yet as the new rights become more valuable, such old-media distributors of content as publishers and photo agencies are discovering a new willingness by courts to leave them out in the cold...
Pimentel argues that vegetarianism is much more environment-friendly than diets revolving around meat. "In terms of caloric content, the grain consumed by American livestock could feed 800 million people--and, if exported, would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year." Grain-fed livestock consume 100,000 liters of water for every kilogram of food they produce, compared with 2,000 liters for soybeans. Animal protein also demands tremendous expenditures of fossil-fuel energy--eight times as much as for a comparable amount of plant protein. Put another way, says Pimentel, the average omnivore diet burns...