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Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...seemingly positive developments. The Lebanese President said he found "a very sincere will" in Clinton to make peace in the Middle East. Even as negotiations continued, Israeli air, artillery and gunboat attacks continued in Lebanon for the 14th consecutive day, pounding suspected Hizballah guerrilla bases and the Beirut-Tyre highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted a pipeline which provides water to 23 villages in southern Lebanon as well as to Irish, Finnish and Ghanaian...
...Chinese people from the information highway? asks a billboard in Beijing. The answer, according to the billboard: 100 meters--the distance to the headquarters of CompuNet, China's first commercial online service and one of a handful of companies offering citizens access to the Internet...
...clear how much free expression the Communist Party will tolerate. The government has already outlawed the online transmission of pornography and state secrets, and in February it required all Internet users to register with the police. The Chinese people may be only 100 meters from the information highway, but those last 100 meters could be the trickiest...