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...central issue is the fate of the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israel has agreed to withdraw, and according to reports from Israeli officials, the two sides for the first time have an implicit understanding that the withdrawal will be total. The two sides have accepted the principle of "equality" of security arrangements on and around the Golan. Both countries, for instance, would remove their armed forces from the border region. However, the Syrians are demanding that the demilitarization be symmetrical; Israel insists that it cannot afford to pull back...
...increases the number of instructions per task. A CISC processor, on the other hand, requires fewer instructions per task but typically processes fewer instructions per second. However, since compilers rarely generate complex instructions, RISC chips should be able to be pushed faster and faster, while CISC performance must plateau...
...found out. She cited the practical reason that she did not want a repeat of the government-recommended, ultimately abortive evacuation of December 1944. We had spent three days on a crowded refugee train headed for the south. When we reached our destination, a hamlet on the Bavarian high plateau, Mother stood in the bitter wind at the station, took one look and declared that we were going back. The evacuation officials were flabbergasted: Why would anyone want to head east? She never explained why she chose to give up the relative security of that Bavarian hamlet, but I suspect...
...dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been the daughter of Pharaoh Pepi I, who ruled during the 6th Dynasty...
...great deal of fuss was made over the dow's passing 4000 points. Now that it has settled in on a plateau above that lofty summit, people are wondering what it will take to push it to 5000. Old-timers in the market can remember the Dow bumping up against 1000 for 11 years, but lately it's made a brisk ascent: 2000 in 1987, 3000 in 1991 and 4000 in 1995, gaining 1,000 points every 1,400 days. At this pace, it will reach 5000 sometime around the turn of the century...