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...Bethlehem on Wednesday evening, Israeli agents disguised as Arabs and driving a car with a Palestinian license plate ambushed and killed four suspected militants, including a senior commander of Islamic Jihad. Israeli intelligence sources told TIME that the assassination was designed to prevent an alleged suicide attack that the Islamic Jihad commander had been planning, and to signal to Palestinian militants that while the Israelis were willing to discuss a truce in Gaza, military operations inside the West Bank were non-negotiable. The other message: Israel is in no mood to let militants dictate the cease-fire terms, especially after...
...afternoon, we stepped into The Gilberti Family: The Movie. We abandoned the map, followed a hunch, and let go of reality. After all, that’s what it takes to get out of the ordinary. The next day my stomach recovered, but I will always blame my clean plate phobia on that episode in Italy. Sure, I have a healthier sense of who I am and where I come from, but no appetite for tiramisu for at least the next few decades...
...oldest of eight siblings, she is now a mother of four, from José Maria, 13, to Quique, 15 months. "We're not standard," she says with a laugh, sitting in her central Madrid living room as her two middle ones, Jacobo, 9, and Gracita, 7, carry in a plate of home-baked cookies. "People at work say, 'There's no way you have four kids!' " Her half-day job as a youth counselor allows her to drop off the kids at school and pick them up, and she recently turned down a chance to become a partner...
...American expressway. In short, the development of India’s economy is more important right now than a relatively small environmental threat like the Nano. Tata has reached its goal in terms of supplying accessible and emissions-compliant transportation; the Indian government should now step up to the plate as well to implement strategies to increase the viability of accessible transport.It is true that many Americans consider themselves incapable of living without the cherished automobile, and correspondingly, traffic and pollution in the U.S. has become a big problem. This, however, does not mean the same thing will happen...
...Earlier this month, the Army stepped up to the plate and asked for $4 billion more than the $141 billion it is slated to receive in 2009. The Marines asked for $3 billion more than their proposed ration of $25 billion. The Navy asked for $5 billion to be added to its bottom line of $124 billion. But all those sums added together don't equal the - hold your breath, dear taxpayer - $19 billion that the Air Force wants over and above its $144 billion request...