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...contend with a barrage of international media coverage of the two peace vessels sailing into Gaza harbor - and the publicity boon this will give to the Hamas militants who have ruled Gaza since June 2007 when they split with Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who governs from the Palestinian inland enclave in the West Bank. Hamas' leader in Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, personally welcomed the activists. Israel and Hamas are sworn enemies (the Islamic militants say they want to destroy the Jewish state) but nonetheless they agreed to a cease-fire in June that has largely held firm...
...last week, a touch of sadness hung by the Ohio River across from Louisville. The occasion marked the waning of the era of riverboat building, if not its end. Jeffboat, Inc., once launched up to 15 barges a week. This barge, a grain vessel, was the last. The inland waterway fleet is overbuilt and underused, and Jeffboat, its work force reduced to 70 from a 1981 peak of 2,300, will retreat into the repair business. Jeffboat folds up what Manager John Briley of the Ohio River Museum in Marietta calls ''the last major shipyard'' on a river that once...
...will undoubtedly provide for the sustained economic growth of Asia. If we cannot come up with a solution that allows for the economic development of Asia, we essentially negate the possibility of global cooperation, in which case, we should start warming up to the most practical solution: to move inland, away from the inevitably rising...
Many of the survivors have taken refuge in nearby monasteries and schools. By late week the government has sent buses to take survivors to larger towns further inland. But many refugees were unwilling to leave their locality for camps where disease can spread quickly. Late at night, deep in the delta, a convoy of 13 buses headed back empty to the town of Maubin. No one had taken the military's offer of shelter. But in the town of Kyaiklat, 12 camps were full, each teeming with around 2,000 refugees. Ma Sein and her four children were holed...
Today, his boat chugs past the village of Pankyun, where most houses have been razed by the wind and the water, their occupants drowned or gone. Fishing boats have capsized or been grounded. One has been lifted 100 meters inland, so powerful was the surge of water. A dead baby floats face-down in water amid more putrefying livestock. Kalaylay...