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...Bush Administration expected that while Lebanon and Gaza are under Israeli assault, the very Arab autocrats the Bush administration in a giddier moment had threatened with a fatal dose of democracy - and whose citizens are backing Hizballah - are going to give diplomatic support to Israel and the U.S. offensive against Hizballah? You have to wonder what these guys are smoking...
This year the stargazers will have more than ever to shoot. Lunar eclipses will occur on May 16 and Nov. 9. And in August, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years. Amateur astronomers, already drunk on the sky, are likely to get giddier still. "There's a mind-stretching aspect to it," says Berman. "You look through a telescope and don't have to say a thing." The sky, as always, is perfectly capable of speaking for itself. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Nancy Harbert/Fort Davis, Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral...
...Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris, meanwhile, driven from the Muslim-majority valley by terrorism, wished for a Hindu homeland. However, though Kashmiris might be unfortunate, or romantic, they are not fools. They now realize that independence will not suddenly become an option today. Instead, they, along with the Indians and Pakistanis, should seek to effectively end the partition...
...worked perfectly. It was like Black Hawk Down, except nothing went wrong," says Colonel Harry Warren, who heads a military hospital that took part in the mission. Indeed, no one was giddier than Lynch's family and the residents of Palestine, who shouted the good news through the streets and began instantly posting WELCOME HOME signs on the highway leading into town. But the national celebration was tempered on Saturday when the Pentagon identified the remains of nine of her compatriots from the 507th who were found in shallow graves near the hospital where Lynch was rescued. "Of course there...
...picture many people seem in the mood to look at just now. With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years, and with genetic engineering's dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technological progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late...