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...Burj, Dubai is creating a massive complex of hotels and condos called the Palm on a man-made island in the shape of?no joking?a giant palm tree. Another ambitious resort named the World is being constructed on another man-made island in the form of?naturally?a map of the world. Recently Sheik Mohammed announced plans for Dubailand, a $4.9 billion megaproject that will include the Mall of Arabia, and theme parks called Adventure World, Sports World and Eco-tourism World...
...reading, there's no chance of a negotiated peace with the Palestinians so long as Arafat leads them. So, to stem the tide of blood in the meantime, Sharon is preparing to pull Israeli forces and settlers behind his West Bank security barrier and wait for the Palestinian political map to change. The trouble is, to prove he is not pulling out because of pressure from militant Palestinian groups like Hamas, Sharon has taken steps that may only fuel the conflict, most notably his approving the assassination last month of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas. And last week Sharon...
Some modern atonement theorists maintain that only one answer--theirs--flows inevitably from Scripture. But more agree with Chicago Theological Seminary's Theodore Jennings Jr. "The New Testament is just all over the map" on the question of why Christ died, he says. Its writers "are all persuaded that something really drastic, fundamental and dramatic has happened, and they're pulling together all kinds of ways to understand that...
...want the occupation to end and would be content to live side by side with Israel if they had a viable state of their own in the territory they inhabited in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem before 1967. That is almost exactly what the U.S. peace road map calls for, though of course it is the precise contours of the two-state solution that have eluded negotiators for so long...
...that violent resistance gives them back some of their lost self-esteem. At a demonstration in downtown Gaza, I met a skinny 12-year-old who had wrapped his head in a homemade Hamas band. He carried a green Hamas banner proclaiming AL-QASSAM BRIGADE WILL TEAR UP EVERY MAP NOT WRITTEN BY THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS. When I asked what he wanted to be when he grows up, the boy answered: "Qassam, Qassam, Qassam." Why? "Because we believe in Palestine." The militants have become the only heroes Palestinians have...