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...draw. But Sharon, who long opposed a fence, was forced to accede to calls that the government do something dramatic to protect civilians from terrorists. Those calls reached a climax last week when a car bomber killed 17 Israelis by detonating 220 lbs. of explosives alongside a bus in northern Israel. "We just need to stop the murder of Israelis," says a Defense Ministry official, explaining the simple logic of the fence. "That's all we care about...
...Africa from Senegal to the Red Sea, has declined between 20% and 50%, leading to severe droughts. Now scientists in Australia and Canada say that pollution from industrial economies may have caused these droughts - research suggests that sulphur dioxide from factories in Europe and the U.S. has cooled the Northern Hemisphere, driving the tropical rain belt south away from the Sahel. ISRAEL Powell on Palestine In an interview with al-Hayat, a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that, as part of efforts to create a full Palestinian state, it might be necessary...
...Americans. Tbaiti's controller, sources tell TIME, was the same operative - an Al Qaeda commander known as Mullah Blal - who directed the Cole bombing in October 2000. The sources say that within the past month, Al Tbaiti and at least one of the other Saudi suspects traveled to the northern Moroccan coast to launch preparations for attacking a U.S. or British warship passing through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. Using the meticulous planning for the Cole operation as their blueprint, they scouted for housing that could serve as a surveillance post overlooking refueling stations in Mellilia and in Ceuta, Spanish...
...desolate spot on a heat-seared plain 300 kilometers southwest of Varanasi as the site for its prodigious spree of temple building?nearly 100 in as many years. But it's a good thing the Moguls, who were lopping off the heads of idolatrous sculptures in their rampage across northern India, never found them. They would have been apoplectic with rage at the temples' stone figures communing in sexual positions that would make a Pattaya prostitute blush...
Chaka?fighting writer, Japan aficionado and Cleveland native?is back in the land of the rising sun for Isaac Adamson's second hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left to analyze the innermost thoughts of his roommate, a "six-pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo...