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...Israeli-Palestinian roller-coaster ride of violence looks set to take a precipitous dive, and there may be little its passengers can do to avert the plunge. Avenging the dead, after all, is a principle central to both cultures, and it has given the current wave of violence a self-sustaining life of its own. Israel's security cabinet met Wednesday with a view to abandoning its self-styled "policy of restraint" in dealing with the Palestinian intifada, following the killing of four Israelis in drive-by shootings on Monday. And Palestinian gunmen continued to confront Israeli soldiers and settlers...
...second half, the Crimson had better chances. With 20 minutes left, Yenne, after maneuvering around in the box, got the ball to freshman midfielder Katie Westfall left of the arc. Westfall fired the ball the opposite way through traffic and crossed Luckenbill up, but the keeper's rightward dive was still enough to make the save...
...UConn attack had been keeping sophomore keeper Cheryl Gunther plenty busy. She was fortunate in the minutes before the fatal goal, as the Huskie forwards shot wide on their first few looks. At one point, she was forced to dive for a loose ball with two Huskie forwards barreling down...
...NASDAQ, meanwhile, was a practically a rock in these troubled times. On staggering volume of 2 million shares (this by 2:30), the tech index took a smaller version of the Dow's early dive but steadily regained ground throughout the day and by late afternoon was into the black. Credit Intel, Sun Microsystems (which flubbed and spit out a good earnings report a few hours early) and Microsoft for leading the charge...
...free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from Warner Bros., the Humane Society of the U.S. and cell-phone tycoon Craig McCaw; and the environmental group Earth Island Institute organized the project...