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...remember televisions with knobs and dials but--gasp!--no remote control, then you probably grew up in the '50s or '60s. If you intend to watch the news tonight on one of those models, call the Smithsonian: you're a dinosaur. For as young shoppers head to electronics stores to buy the new high-definition TVs (HDTVs), the over-50 crowd is falling in right behind them...
...south. The Hizballah men are now surrounded and unless they can evade the enclosing Israeli troops and escape to the north, they face a grim but certain fate. But hours after the Israeli thrust, Hizballah rockets are still being fired from near Naqoura, suggesting that those battle-hardened guerrillas intend to fight to the last...
...endorsement of the Lebanese government's package deal could also be a ruse. After Hizballah ministers had signed up to it, Nasrallah appeared on TV, threatening more rockets on Israel. "I'm sure Hizballah is saying yes to buy time," says a senior Lebanese source. "They don't intend to disarm. They are smart...
...intensity of the conflict has prevented UNIFIL from dispatching more humanitarian convoys, although Milos Strugar, UNIFIL's senior advisor, says that they intend to send them out anyway."We are doing the best we can under the circumstances," he tells TIME...
...ultramodern technological surveillance mechanisms. Some have questioned whether he directs the generals or they direct him. But his working relationships, both with the generals and with Prime Minister Olmert, appear to be good. And Peretz has matched tough rhetoric - "We expected Hizballah to break the rules, and now we intend to break them," he told reporters last week - with a willingness to fire back at critics. "Hizballah's growing strength did not begin when Amir Peretz showed up," he told Israel's Yedioth Aronoth newspaper. "This happened when all those now giving advice were in charge...