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...CONCEPT CART Tomorrow's supermarket may look a lot like today's, but the humble cart is fast evolving. By next fall, using radio-frequency sensors to navigate, your cart will display a map to guide you through the aisles, pointing out sales and specials. Instead of taking a number, you'll use the touch screen to request shrimp from the seafood section or cold cuts from the deli to be picked up on your way to the checkout...
...fact, the glacially slow progress of the road map was as responsible as anything for the breakdown. Palestinians, perhaps impatiently, had expected to see tangible improvement in their lives by signing on to the road map and the cease-fire. "We didn't agree to all this just to reopen the Gaza road," said a Hamas supporter a few weeks ago. Israelis, just as impatiently, expected the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, under Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, to arrest, disarm and dismantle Hamas and other militant bands. Neither side delivered, and each accused the other of purposefully stalemating progress...
...Israeli military official retorted that all Hamas leaders are equally at risk: "We don't distinguish between military and political levels in Hamas." Meanwhile, Hamas leaders went underground after calling for "Jewish blood to flood in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa." Alas, there is no road map for where that kind of talk can lead. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Jamil Hamad/Amman and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...Shanab was not the most obvious target for assassination. He had promoted the cease-fire, which he called a test of Israeli and U.S. intentions to deliver on the road map to peace. Among the top four political leaders of Hamas, he was never a gunman himself. But the U.S.-educated engineer and university professor had emerged as the organization's most visible spokesman, thanks to his excellent command of English, his understanding of the Western mind and, on the hard scale of Hamas, his softer tone. Israelis dismissed his mild pragmatism as nothing but smart...
...road map is a cliff that both sides will fall off of." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, on the precariousness of the Bush Administration's road map for peace after a cease-fire between Arabs and Israelis ended with deadly fighting...