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...Once Abdullah secured a promise from Hamas to halt the rocket fire, he summoned Olmert and Barak for an urgent meeting at his palace in Amman on Tuesday night, where he relayed the news of Hamas' willingness to curb the rocket fire. He also warned the two Israelis that an assault on Gaza would destroy any chance of an Arab peace initiative and would jeopardize Israel's ties with its moderate Arab neighbors, Jordan and Egypt...
...Thanks to conniving from the usual slimy coven of agents and network execs - and a tumble of coincidences nearly as endearing as they are preposterous - Bolt is shipped to New York City, where he strikes up a quick animosity with a sassy cat named Mittens (Curb Your Enthusiasm's Susie Essman). Their itinerary will be no secret to the youngest of viewers: cat and dog, joined by Rhino (Disney animator Mark Walton), a hamster who travels in a Plexiglas ball. Through Rhino, a diehard fan of the TV show, Bolt realizes that his powers aren't so super...
...home under their parents’ supervision; the Wisconsin statute only extends this right to public places. These laws give parents discretion about when their children begin drinking and help encourage smart, responsible drinking.Still, the much larger problem is the current drinking age, which has utterly failed to curb the most dangerous underage drinking. The United States is one of the few nations in the world with such a high drinking age, and we have little to show for it. When faced with widespread disrespect for the law, the government should consider that perhaps the problem is not the disrespect...
...Because of the failed-state status of Somalia, the international community needs to take strong actions to curb piracy before the situation gets out of hand...
...Beijing, the dividends from recycling are instant: hard cash for discarded cardboard, paper and plastic bottles, paid by the junk men who trawl the streets on tricycles each morning, yelling "Collecting scrap! Collecting scrap!" So fierce is the demand that a bag of trash rarely makes it to the curb before someone is poking through it in search of recyclables...