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...human costs mount, so do the financial ones. In just one week, the damage to Lebanon's infrastructure amounts to as much as $2.5 billion, according to Safadi. Even if the conflict ended tomorrow, Lebanon would struggle to find the money to rebuild itself. Tourists, the country's largest source of income, are unlikely to return any time soon, and the country is already in debt from rebuilding after its decades-long civil...
...windshield suction cup that just didn't suck enough, and a GPS chip that would lose reception when driving on an underpass. In the c550, all three of those mistakes have been rectified - the anti-glare screen is much easier to see under the hot summer sun, the suction mount holds fast to the windshield, and a new GPS chip-from a specialized manufacturer called SiRF-can pick up satellite signals even when you are indoors...
...drones buzzed overhead, some 7,000 troops, 80 Israeli tanks and 180 armored personnel carriers massed at the border with Gaza, territory Israel evacuated less than a year ago. The Israelis seized Gaza's dilapidated airport to prevent Shalit's kidnappers from moving him out, with units ready to mount a rescue raid if Israeli intelligence or its informants picked up word of Shalit's whereabouts. Had the offensive stopped there, it might have seemed to most people a defensibly legitimate, if extraordinarily intense, operation for a single soldier's life...
Presidents come and go, but monuments are always with us. There's a reason Theodore Roosevelt is the only 20th century President whose face is carved into Mount Rushmore, the only one who could hold his own with Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson. Roosevelt not only remade America, but he also charmed the pants off everybody while he did it. And just short of a century after he left the White House, in 1909, the collective memory of his strength and intellect and charisma still lingers. How many times over the years since have Americans settled their affections on some thoughtful...
...Modest Mountaineers As reported in our May 29 issue, Mount Everest is being scaled by some surprising climbers, including a teenage boy and a double amputee. The June 14, 1999, TIME 100 profile of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay related that the mountain's first conquerors in 1953 were also unlikely heroes...