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...headed to our evening destination, a sandy beach hidden inside an alcove about 25 miles up the lake. It would take nearly three hours to get there. With the aid of a map and binoculars, we finally located an empty 80-ft.-wide crescent covered with soft, salmon-colored sand. No other boat or person was in sight. Once we had anchored, our daughters made a mad dash for the upper deck in what would be the first of innumerable shrieking rides down the slide into clear 80[degree] water. Though the bow of the boat was wedged securely...
...fireworks crackle of machine guns can soon be heard. "This is our music," says Leora, 25, a teacher, with a shrug. Noam, 28, murmurs psalms when he hears the firing. "This is a God-given land. God wills that we fight for this land," he says, pointing to a map of Solomon's biblical kingdom, which shows the border of Israel extending south of the Gaza Strip into Sinai. "If you believe that the land is truly yours, it's natural to give up your lives to protect...
...NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing we call chemotherapy, not to mention its attendant miseries...
...point of being indifferent to the outcome of the election. Some in the PA even say they prefer Likud and Netanyahu, because the old Netanyahu was so hated that he helped win international support for the Palestinians. But this is the Middle East, and things change rapidly. Any political map you draw today will be out of date in six months...
Back in the Cold War days, Washington and Moscow pored over the world map like a chessboard; it was then folded by Boris Yeltsin, who had no appetite for the game. President Vladimir Putin, however, wants to play. And under the tutelage of such old pros as former foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, Putin's no slouch when it comes to geopolitics. That much was clear earlier this year when the Russian president outflanked Washington among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive...