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Among the brawniest is Abu Samhadana, whose shifting network of allegiances illustrates the difficulties Abbas faces in trying to restore order. During the intifadeh, the Salah ed-Din Brigades gained the respect of Gazans by confronting Israeli soldiers when the official Palestinian military fled. But the group ran its refugee camps, towns and villages as gangster fiefs. With the Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. Despite Abbas' ban on the public display of weapons, members of the gang can still be seen on Gaza's streets, openly toting their...
...Flint Hills of Kansas, one of the last pristine tallgrass prairies in the U.S. About 100 local antiwind groups have emerged in Germany, and in France, which has just 440 wind farms but hopes to operate 7,000 by 2010, such groups have banded together to form a national network named Wind of Anger...
...minded Nextel is by launching a business-minded phone. The PPC-6700 PCS Vision Smart Device sprint.com $630, or $480 after rebates) can juggle several wireless connections at the same time. If you want to check e-mail and surf the Web, you can hop on a wi-fi network or connect to Sprint's new high-speed wireless network, available in more than 75 major U.S. markets. There's also Bluetooth for printing wirelessly and connecting a wireless hands-free earpiece...
...That?s a tall order, even for Schmidt. At Novell he learned first hand just how tough it can be to fend off Microsoft; Novell continues to roll along selling its network products. But that defeat spurred him on to golden success at Google. ?Schmidt knows the danger and the risks,? says Rymer. ?You can learn from your experiences, and he?s been effective at Google...
...Your initial reaction, of course, is disbelief and despair: if the national divorce rate is pushing 50 percent, what are the chances a young couple could actually make marriage last in a society that entertains itself by watching “Desperate Housewives” and the Home Shopping Network. Don’t mind my pessimism—it merely serves to explain away my own status as a bachelorette. But honestly, a young bride seems so “Little House on the Prarie,” so “Spears and Federline,” certainly...