Word: peninsulas
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Egyptian and Israeli leaders meet in the U.S. to discuss a framework for lasting peace. In exchange for diplomatic recognition, Israel in 1979 agrees to return the Sinai peninsula. Other issues are shelved...
...lower the boil, Bush issued invitations instead of threats. Standing in a gleaming unused train station at the dead end of a line meant to connect both halves of the peninsula, he beckoned the North to link their tracks to all of the riches of democracy on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone. Privately, the administration told South Korean officials that they would be reaching out in more formal ways in the coming weeks. Bush also asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for help making the connections ,just as he'd tapped Japanese leaders two days before in Tokyo...
...island in 1786 for the East India Co. and laid the foundations for its rise to prominence as a major trading post for spices, tea, porcelain, textiles, tin and rubber. The fort was once a formidable defense against pirates, the French and the Kedah sultanate on the Malay peninsula, which was bent on reclaiming its captured territory. Now it encloses a peaceful garden, studded with weathered cannons. One cannon in the fort's northeastern corner has taken on the unlikely role of fertility symbol. Local women place floral offerings on its barrel in hopes of improving their chances of conceiving...
...terrace of the 19th century Notre Dame basilica, on the site of the old Roman Forum, the view follows the city's progress, from the medieval and Renaissance Vieux Lyons on the banks of the Saône to the narrow 17th and 18th century Presqu'île, or peninsula, between the Saône and the Rhône. On the left is the smaller hill of Croix-Rousse, the 19th century silk worker's center, and beyond the Rhône the 20th century business district of Part-Dieu...
...Iran, Iraq and North Korea. All three have at times survived as much isolation as the rest of the world could muster and still succeeded in stockpiling their weapons. And while Western diplomacy has brought somewhat better behavior--increased contact with Iran, easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula--it has not diminished each country's fervent search for weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon brass still wince at the memory of Bill Clinton's 1998 speech warning that the world must come up with "a genuine solution" to the Saddam problem and "not simply one that glosses over" it. Bush...