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...weeks in November 1991, a bombastically conservative student journal called Peninsula dominated discussion in Harvard's dining halls and class discussion sections...
...security; he has also pledged to put the issue before his electorate in a referendum. Although opinion polls show that only 41 percent of Israelis currently support handing over the territory, Mr. Barak could take heart from the fact that only 20 percent supported handing back the Sinai Peninsula at a comparable stage in the 1978 peace negotiations with Egypt. "Whether it be to the Egyptians, the Palestinians or the Syrians, Israelis are always opposed to giving away land," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "But then when a leader whose security credentials they trust presents it to them...
...most famous example of rock-on-rock catastrophe, the Earth was slammed 65 million years ago by a massive rock formation that created an enormous crater in the Yucatan Peninsula and probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Everyone recognizes the devastating effect of the dino-death asteroid, Jaroff points out, but many people are still hesitant to assign any real significance to asteroid studies. "The scientists who began looking for information back in the 1970s were hamstrung by a general lack of funding. They were greeted in Congress by giggles...
Japan and China? Between Tsushima, where the Japanese sank the Russian fleet, and Pearl Harbor, where they wiped out America's, the sons of Nippon did not even know from coffee; all they had was green tea. Ditto the Chinese when they chased American soldiers down the Korean Peninsula. Ditto the British, who for 400 years ruled the seas while swilling Java that was as tasty as their food. Tiny Israel has bested the Arabs in five wars. And why? Because Israeli "coffee" could eat through the armor of a Soviet-built T-72 in three minutes...
...Sultan has ruled Oman, a nation of 2.1 million people in the southeast part of the Arabian peninsula, since...