Word: horizons
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...ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says Yann Arthus-Bertrand...
...Haaretz sees Israel's multibillion dollar budget deficit and zero growth as the "price of the occupation." An editorial warns, "While the developed world, and particularly the United States, is showing clear signs of recovery, Israel is sinking deeper and deeper into recession. In the absence of any political horizon to the conflict, which would include an end of the occupation, this decline is liable to become permanent." Things look even worse on the Palestinian side. The BBC reports that a meeting of international donors in Oslo agreed to provide $1.2 billion in aid to rebuild Palestinian infrastructure destroyed...
...peace. Even more so the local elections scheduled for December, since those are contested by Hamas, which boycotts "national" elections because it refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority. If statehood is made conditional on the emergence of a Palestinian leadership acceptable to Washington, then the "political horizon" Washington had hoped to establish through Bush's speech may be too distant to have any meaningful impact on the current standoff...
...town, each one a wonderland of the world's finest collections of flowering plants. Probably the most splendid is the unimaginatively named Reserve 29073, 10 km west of Eneabba, where carpets of everlastings (so called because their petals stay attached even after the flowers die) stretch beyond the horizon. A close second: Beekeeper's Reserve 20 km north. It's an apiarists' delight, preserved for local beekeepers who, during the spring and summer, reap a rich harvest from their multitude of hives. Information and maps locating the reserves can be obtained at the general store in Eneabba...
Though the Faculty voted in 1984 to fund the costs from its own budget, the discrimination issue was on the horizon...