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Each incremental raising of the ante may not look like much in itself, but taken cumulatively the pattern is unmistakable: No longer bound by a peace process, Israel and the Palestinians have jumped into the abyss. Israeli tanks and troops were poised to move into Palestinian-controlled villages near Bethlehem late Tuesday, following the incursion earlier in the day into the West Bank town of Jenin, where some 70 Israeli tanks destroyed a Palestinian police station. Israeli forces also seized three houses in the PA-controlled village of Beit Jallah to counter gunfire on an adjacent Israeli neighborhood. And last...
...Charles? edge toward popularity in the late ?50s coincided with a shift from the 12-bar format to pop?s favorite descending chord pattern (C, C7, F, F-minor) in the choruses of "Ain?t That Love," "Swanee River Rock" and "That?s Enough" and the release of "This Little Girl of Mine" and his sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy...
...sharks keep their blood warmer than the surrounding water, that tiger sharks do not return to the site of an attack to prey again, and that bull sharks have the highest levels of testosterone measured in any creature, land or sea. Each has a different diet, a different behavior pattern and a different mode of attack...
...museum's third burglary that year. Nigerian traders also target villages like Kawu, buying artifacts from locals or encouraging rudimentary digging. "It's not exactly excavation," says Abiye Ichaba, head of research and documentation at the Abuja Council for Arts and Culture. "There's nothing systematic about it, no pattern to it. We call it plundering...
...their absence, the most fascinating part of the job is the new perspective it affords on a time so fresh in my memory. In the adventure and trauma of preparing for college, something as simple as a sheet pattern can seem to take on extraordinary importance. And in a sense, that impulse is right on target. Going to bed every night is one of the great constants in our lives; especially at an early age, it is also a great source of comfort. Outfitting a completely foreign bed, especially one five confounding inches longer than a regular twin-size, represents...