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...valley to Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem built on occupied land, Israel will invade the Palestinian town. Last week Israel moved tanks to the edge of Beit Jala as part of what Israeli military officials call a "rolling operation." As in the Jenin incursion, the aim is to mount different types of actions with constantly varying amounts of force all over the Palestinian territories. Until now, Israel's attacks have come mostly in predictable trouble spots. The new message is that they could happen anywhere. It is intended to pressure Arafat and his regime by planting the idea that...
SUSPENDED. JOSEPH ELLIS, 57, Pulitzer-prizewinning history professor who regaled his students with fabricated tales about his combat experiences in Vietnam; for one year without pay from his teaching post at Mount Holyoke College; in South Hadley, Mass. Ellis, author of such popular works as Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, issued a formal apology in June after the Boston Globe reported he had never served overseas. He must relinquish his endowed chair...
...Cuban-American leaders have a keen sense of the importance of tapering their message to the political center, many of the older generation who actually fled Castro's rule are suspicious of anything that smells like compromise. While CANF leaders counseled moderation, a coalition of exile groups vowed to mount a vigorous protest against the presence of the Cuba-based musicians at the event - and despite the efforts by Mas Santos and other younger leaders to broker a compromise, the planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling out. The decision, which cost Miami's tourist industry some...
...long ago, Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was standing on the summit of East Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, watching his drilling team bring up a cylindrical core of ice. With eyes honed by a quarter-century of experience, he saw immediately that the core's glassy surface was riddled with holes--not the little round holes formed by trapped air bubbles but gaping conduits that could have been excavated only by running water. It was not an encouraging sign...
...Thompson is at the top of his game. He is, in fact, at a point in his career where he could throttle back and not work quite so hard. Instead he seems determined to speed up, to mount still more expeditions to the world's glaciers and ice caps before rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases force temperatures even higher. Later this year, he and his colleagues will report the results of the first climate record ever extracted from Kilimanjaro's ice--and very likely the last. "The world is warming," Thompson likes to remind people...