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...Aviv park last Thursday, more than 40,000 people gathered to remind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the fierce 34-day attack on Lebanon failed to achieve one crucial goal: to free two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizballah militants. And a smaller but no less lethal military operation in Gaza - in which more than 200 Palestinians were killed - has yet to rescue a third Israeli soldier who was grabbed in June by Palestinian militants...
...their R&B-influenced vocals. The members of the quartet seemed destined for careers as backup singers until industry executives went looking for an antidote to the slinky, often marginally talented beauties churned out by the K-pop factory. "Their singing abilities were too good to pass up," says Park Hun Pyo, the group's manager. Their first two albums were top-5 hits in Korea, and they're getting props overseas, too: they appeared in concert with Boyz II Men in Korea last year. A third album, due out in October, will showcase the band's increasing versatility, adding...
...would someday take one too many risks. "He had a long history of doing this kind of thing with dangerous animals; some people do these things and get away with it, and other times your number comes up," says Professor Grahame Webb, a crocodile expert who operates a crocodile park in Darwin. "He had huge experience with crocodiles and snakes and reptiles, but stingrays are quite different." Webb, who supports crocodile conservation but had clashed with Irwin over issues to do with sustainable development, believes Irwin had played a significant role in ensuring crocodiles were protected. "Conserving koala bears...
...John Doerr, a founder of the Greentech Network, is a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, Calif...
...mission is neither to "get kids in" nor to "package" them to enhance their chances. We endeavor to help them and their parents more fully understand a process in which they will be investing so much emotionally as well as financially. SUZANNE F. SCOTT, ED.M. ACADEMIC ADVISORY SERVICE Elkins Park...