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TIME.com: Abu Mazen has been elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, opening the way for the U.S. and its allies to publish the "road map" and restart the peace process. His election is being hailed as a new dawn in the U.S. media, particularly because he has vowed to fight terrorism and pursue negotiations by taking steps to guarantee Israel's security - in particular, by disarming all Palestinian groups outside of the official security services. How likely is he to achieve these goals...
...Against all of this, Abu Mazen is pointing to the "road map." But the Palestinian Authority may be forgetting what the "road map" will require of them. They want the Israelis to withdraw, but in order to achieve that, the Palestinian Authority has to implement a security plan, renounce the right of return (of Palestinian refugees to Israel) and stop incitement and anti-Israel propaganda. How are they going to do it? This is the missing part of how Palestinians envisage the road map...
...unlikely. The Pentagon has its hands full trying to maintain order in Iraq, not to mention fending off a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan and readying for a possible confrontation with North Korea. Taking on Syria would only confirm Arab fears that the U.S. intends to remake the Middle East map by force. And so, gradually the Administration toned down its rhetoric. Powell said he planned to visit Damascus during an upcoming trip to the region, and that "there is no war plan on anyone's desk right now to go marching on Syria...
...adults backed by two major media conglomerates each put a bunch of teenagers in a hotel suite in Cancun, Mexico, force-fed them alcohol, sent them on their wobbly way to wet-T-shirt contests and let the movie cameras roll. Both believed they had simultaneously stumbled upon the map for the Holy Grail of teen comedies, the one that eliminates the genre's most vulnerable point: a script...
...building is just around the corner from the Whitehead Institute, one of the major contributors to the finalized human genome map completed earlier this month...