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...disaster could provide fuel for efforts by Sunni opponents of the proposed constitution to court Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite cleric who has twice led armed uprisings against U.S. troops. The base of his support is in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, home to one-third of Baghdad's population. If al-Sadr called on his poor Shi'ite followers to join Sunnis in opposing the charter, it is likely it would be defeated. Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, a hard-line Sunni group, claims al-Sadr is working...
Beginning this week, their hamlet of Netzer Hazani and the other 20 Jewish settlements that occupy more than one-third of the Gaza Strip will be ghost towns, the Hilburg home of 26 years reduced to rubble, the very purpose of their lives stripped away. Under the controversial policy Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calls disengagement, some 8,700 Israeli residents in Gaza and another 674 in the West Bank must leave their homes or face removal by force. The plan has the support of the international community, including the Bush Administration, which sees the withdrawal as a small but vital...
KIDS' CANCER AND POLLUTION Kids living within one-third of a mile from bus and train stations and exposed to excess engine exhaust were 12 times as likely to die of cancer as other kids, according to a British study of 22,458 children claimed by the disease...
...summer getaway. A new survey by online travel company Expedia reports that a record 421 million vacation days will go unused this year; 31% of us will not use all our vacation, and the average worker will leave three days on the table (up from two in 2003). For one-third of the work force, the longest vacation will be seven days or less. That's good news for employers, who will save about $54 billion. But that's not so great for the travel- and-leisure industry, which is scrambling to reverse the trend. Expedia, for instance, is offering...
...models coming over the next two years. Unlike the profit machines Honda, Nissan and Toyota, Mitsubishi has been in automaker hell. The firm's corporate parent lost $4.4 billion in the past fiscal year, battered by a lingering scandal over vehicle defects, and U.S. sales plummeted one-third this year amid questions about whether Mitsubishi would vacate North America. That seems less likely now, especially if the Eclipse sparks a revival. The nameplate is a hot-rod icon; prior models were prized for their turbocharged engines and bargain prices. The new edition, featuring a throaty V-6, scraps the turbo...