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...couple of locations there will be a wall, like the one on the highway at Qalqilya. Israeli planners calculate that the effective range of the Kalashnikov rifles that many Palestinian gunmen carry is 500 yds. Where there are Israeli homes that are close to Palestinian houses or farmland, concrete walls will block lines of fire, or else the fences will be constructed deeper inside the West Bank. One such spot is in Kokhav Yair, an Israeli town just next to the Green Line. Only yards from the seam line is the leafy home of Israel's army chief of staff...
...missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months before the end of her government's three-year term. Despite the Labour Party's long lead in opinion polls Clark said that the recent breakup of Labour...
...basin, drilling companies will have to unleash torrents of water from underground aquifers--up to 20,000 gal. per day per well--which could deplete the region's water reserves and, because much of the underground water has a high salt content, potentially destroy thousands of acres of farmland. Ranchers also fear that the roads, pipelines and power lines needed for the project will turn their open prairies into industrial wasteland...
...golden teak shimmer and hint at mysteries within. But it's a thrill tempered by the riot of ugliness erupting all around, and the creeping fear that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit Nike clothing shipped down from China. Her stall in the town of Chiang Rai is one of dozens clustered near a towering sign that welcomes visitors to the Golden Triangle. Across the main road, the strip...
...right? Is Bush a menace or a pragmatist? On some issues--air quality, easing national-park maintenance backlogs and farmland conservation--Bush's novel, market-driven approaches may prove efficient and effective in ways that some environmentalists seem unable to see. And there has been more continuity with the previous White House than either the Clinton-bashing Bush team or the Bush-hating environmentalists like to admit. EPA's Whitman, for instance, upheld the standard for arsenic in drinking water that the Clinton Administration adopted in its last hours in office (although she did so only after a public outcry...