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...Lebanese village of Kafr Kileh, which abuts the border fence, and shot dead an Israeli soldier in revenge for the air raid. "It's a new era of terror," says Melzer, a lawyer in this northernmost Israeli town. "It's the most unpredictable time we've ever known." Israel leapt into the unknown last week, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the bombing of the camp in Syria, after an Oct. 4 suicide bomb in Haifa killed 20 Israelis. Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders in Lebanon braced for more attacks, while Melzer and the Israeli soldiers whose base looms above...
Down 21 early in the fourth quarter, he struggled to will his team to victory, scrambling left, cutting back across to the right, then all the way across field again to the left before floating a pass 34 yards downfield to Larsen, who leapt high into the air to pull down an improbable reception...
...infections had fallen to just a handful a day. But the fever is spiking in Taiwan. Since the Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number of deaths from the disease has leapt from zero to 35. Taiwan now has the third highest number of cases in the world, behind mainland China and Hong Kong, and enough to earn a WHO travel advisory. The epidemic also claimed Taiwan's first political casualties: Twu Shiing-jer, Minister of Health, and Chen Tzay-jinn, director...
...contracted. As I weaved through the labyrinth, I could hear huge ice columns groaning and cracking overhead. My first trip took a miserable 13 hours through a frozen maze, a blind person's worst nightmare. No two steps were alike as I zigzagged over thin snow bridges and leapt over deep cracks onto shifting ice boulders. Eventually, with the help of my team, I made it through the icefall 10 times, working the duration of each trip down to five hours...
...dream of experiencing the life of the sea endured. So when a friend from my youth told me she was shipping out on a cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where...