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...Speaking of Iran, if diplomacy fails, should the U.S. use military force to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities...
Strauss: To take out a city, to destroy a city...
...Uganda are all either building or planning to build new dams, and a regional grouping of Nile states is working on proposals for new hydroelectric plants and massive irrigation schemes. To the plans' backers, the Nile is an engine of economic growth. But environmentalists fear a development boom will destroy ecosystems, force people from their homes, and reduce the river to a trickle. "We're definitely at a turning point," says Kinfe Abraham, head of the government-linked think tank Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development in Addis Ababa, and author of three books on the Nile. "The question...
...navigate a computer until after he was indicted, and was so retro that he wrote lists of things to do on graph paper, scratching off his tasks as he walked the floors of Enron every day. (None of those scraps of paper has turned up either. "I didn't destroy them," Skilling protested. "I threw them away...
...take direct action against the Hamas-led government also reflects a certain realpolitik: As much as Israel would like to see Hamas fail, its security chiefs are also aware that there is no credible alternative - President Abbas is a spent force, and taking down the Hamas government means, effectively, destroying the Palestinian Authority itself. The resulting vacuum would force Israel to resume administrative control of an increasingly violent and chaotic West Bank and Gaza, territories over which Israel continues to maintain sovereign control. And that would wreck Olmert's plans to unilaterally redraw boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians...