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Jackson will become the first president of the Arthur M. Blank Foundation, founded in 1995 by the co-founder and CEO of Home Depot. The foundation serves young people and various civic and community causes, giving out about $37 million in grants in 2002 alone...
...Hebron two weeks ago, officials arrested a Hizballah operative who was planning a potentially devastating strike within Israel. The officials say the operative, a Lebanese-born Canadian man known as Abu Ahmed, had been scouting locations for large-scale attacks similar to a failed bomb attempt at a gas depot in May that would have demolished a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Abu Ahmed's arrest, combined with news last month that a 35-year-old Israeli with relatives in Lebanon had been working for Hizballah, has given rise to fears that a big terrorist strike is being planned again...
Town history has focused almost exclusively on the colonial period and the Revolutionary War. But the latest project of the Lexington Historical Society may be a signal that interest in local history is expanding into other topics. The society is in the process of renovating an old railroad depot to create a museum about the town’s development as a railroad suburb in the beginning of the twentieth century. But instead of describing daily life in 1915, the depot’s first major event—a showing of old footage from...
...their forces along with al-Qaeda members have engaged in guerrilla actions aimed at harassing U.S. troops and local warlords aligned with the Kabul government. U.S. bases and patrols regularly come under fire; just last weekend 19 people were killed in the town of Spin Boldak after an ammunition depot used by a pro-Kabul warlord exploded under suspicious circumstances...
...signal, you can build a Pringles-can antenna, a very cool home-brew device that plugs into most wireless cards. The easiest instructions are online at oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 Basically, you'll need a soldering iron, a glue gun and about $6.45 in parts from Radio Shack, Home Depot and the snack aisle of your grocery store. No time to build one? Perhaps one of your neighbors will help. After all, the whole block may reap the benefit...