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...Absolutely. That's happens each year. Cases diminish when mosquitoes die off in cooler weather...
...Barghouti's incarceration is more likely to strengthen than diminish his claim to the mantle of Palestinian national leadership. He's already the most popular Fatah leader after the aging Arafat, and that popularity derives precisely from his willingness to challenge the PA's corruption and cronyism, and to forcefully stand up to both the Israelis and the Americans. Barghouti maintains he shares the goal of the U.S. and most Israelis of resolving the conflict by creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. But unlike them - although more in keeping with the sentiments on the Palestinian street...
KETTERER: The one huge advantage the U.S. continues to have over Japan and Europe is flexibility of labor. That doesn't diminish the argument against diversification internationally, particularly without the headwind of a stronger dollar. Americans investing abroad in the past five years have had this headwind all along, and now it is payback time...
Improvements in infrastructure and automobile technology have helped diminish accident fatalities by nearly half since the 1970s in most E.U. countries (the exceptions being Spain, Greece and Portugal, where the number of cars and drivers significantly increased between 1985 and '95). But social attitudes, driver education and diligent enforcement are key to preventing deaths. After German reunification in 1990, for example, accident mortality exploded in eastern Germany from 1,626 in 1989 to 3,248 in 1991, as drivers on lower-policed roads got access to faster cars from the West. Better safety education, roadway improvement and tougher enforcement helped...
...anew into directly mediating the conflict. And despite's Sharon's reported endorsement of the proposal, Ben-Eliezer himself speaks only for a faction of the Israeli government. Then there's the PA, internally divided over the plan even as its political authority on the Palestinian Street continues to diminish. To call the Gaza-first plan a long-shot is no understatement. But its advocates will likely counter that for now, it may be the only game in town...