Word: peninsulas
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...disastrous in its consequences. Violating Anwar Sadat's peace treaty, cutting itself off from vital U.S. aid, the Egyptian army could send part of its vast forces--say, the four tank divisions and eight mechanized divisions with 1,600 battle tanks, including first-line U.S. M1A1s--into the Sinai peninsula to threaten the Israeli frontier. Compelling the Israelis to mobilize their own army, which would very likely freeze any further action against the Palestinians, would make sense as a piece of military gamesmanship. But strategically it would be catastrophic, because if the Egyptians acted, Syria's young and insecure President...
Members of the panel discussed how best to move forward from the current situation—which they described as a stalement with a divided peninsula, persistent tension, and the potential for escalation...
...Koreans call it "the gate-crasher of spring." Every year, huge storms of fine yellow sand, churned up by winds in the Gobi Desert, swirl across northeastern China and descend on the peninsula, obscuring visibility and dusting everything in yellow. Last week's storm-2002's first-was Korea's worst in at least 40 years. Dust concentrations were 20 times normal in parts of Seoul. Worse still, some scientists now fear the crud clouds are picking up toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, as they cross China's northeastern industrial belt. The pollutant payload is small but "very, very...
ANTARCTICA Now You See It, Now You Don't An ice shelf 200 m thick, 3,250 sq km in extent and weighing 500 billion tons broke up in less than a month. Though average Antarctic peninsula temperatures have risen by 2.5C in the last 50 years, the eastern Larsen B shelf crumbled into small icebergs far faster than expected. The shelf was a huge extension into the water of the ice sheets covering the land mass. It was one of five that have been shrinking owing to climate change. An iceberg half the size of Cyprus broke...
...Ukrainian language, has developed a reputation for extremist nationalism. Controversial and well-publicized decisions - last week, for example, the city of Ivano-Frankivsk recognized veterans of the SS Galicia Division as combatants for the freedom and independence of Ukraine - help maintain this image. And while the Crimean peninsula's 278,000-strong Muslim Tatar population is viewed by the government in Kyiv as "peaceable vegetable growers," as Popovich puts it, strange things are happening there. Arabs from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere are providing funds and supplies of extremist Islamist Russian-language literature from Chechnya, according to Yanina Sokolovskaya, Ukraine correspondent...