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...last six years, Dugit (the word means a small boat in Hebrew) has been home to Firouz, his wife Shontal and their four children whose ages range from 12 to 20. It is one of three settlements established in the northern part of the Gaza Strip during the 1980s. Firouz, 44, moved here simply because it evoked memories of the beautiful sand dunes of his childhood in the Israeli town of Ashdod. As a young man he had lived in several kibbutzim and in Ashdod, but it was only the years in Dugit that provided him and his family with...
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR Weight: 130 to 660 lbs. Length: Up to 6 ft. 3 in. Range: Much of Canada; 32 U.S. states, mostly in the Rockies, Appalachians and Ozarks; northern Mexico How dangerous: Not especially. The black bear avoids humans but can't resist garbage dumps; will attack if cornered Status: Thriving throughout most of its range
...Length: Up to 9 ft. 6 in. Range: Western Canada, northwestern U.S., Alaska, Russia; tiny remnant populations in Europe, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, China How dangerous: Very. Won't usually attack without provocation, but it doesn't take much Status: Thriving in Alaska, Canada, northern Russia; recovering in the U.S.; in danger of extinction in much of the rest of the world
...Iranian infantry and missile brigades moved to buttress the border. Positioned among them were units of the Badr Corps, formed in the 1980s as the armed wing of the Iraqi Shi'ite group known by its acronym SCIRI, now the most powerful party in Iraq. Divided into northern, central and southern axes, Badr's mission was to pour into Iraq in the chaos of the invasion to seize towns and government offices, filling the vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam's regime. As many as 12,000 armed men, along with Iranian intelligence officers, swarmed into Iraq. TIME...
...Four miles north along the coastal dunes, the twin smokestacks of the Ashkelon power plant blink their red warning lights. These, too, are within easy range of the rockets of Hamas once Israel takes its troops out of northern Gaza, as are the massive circular fuel tanks around its perimeter, and Israeli officials fear a strike against the plant could cripple Israel's electricity grid. It abuts the city of Ashkelon, which has grown to a mpopulation of 120,000 as new immigrants from Russia flooded into its bright white apartment blocks during the last decade. "That," says Miri Eisen...