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...Sept. 4, 1939, 29 British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...Palestinian civilians and many Israeli soldiers dead, but wouldn't necessarily stop the rockets. Olmert can also take heart from last month's poll by the liberal daily Haaretz, which found that 64% of Israelis support direct talks with Hamas. The Prime Minister was recently in Ashkelon, the southern port now in the range of Hamas's Grad rockets, and was shown how schoolkids, who have no bunkers, have learned to scurry under their desks when the rocket alarm wails. Olmert must realize that having Ashkelon's children hiding under desks is no realistic answer to rocket attacks - and neither...
...need to look out of the window or tune in to newscasts to find out where the action is. Instead, they can simply log on to Google Maps or Google Earth and track the firefighters in real time as they tear down the streets of this Vancouver Island port community. The Google-enabling of Nanaimo's fire service, launched just weeks ago, is the latest venture in a British Columbia town that has been dubbed the capital of Google Earth...
...March 7 story, "Photo Exhibit Explores Bulgaria," misstated the name of one of the sponsors of the event. It is the Massachusetts Port Authority, not the Massachusetts Transport Authority...
...southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon, the bull's-eye of Palestinian rocket attacks, pharmacists noted that the sale of tranquilizers shot up by more than 60% in the past week as residents sought to calm their shattered nerves. But with Ashkelon's 120,000 citizens now in the range of the Russian-made Grad rockets recently hauled out of Hamas' arsenals to escalate the confrontation, the drug of choice for Israeli leaders and U.S. officials trying to revive peace talks is more likely to be aspirin or any other pain reliever to help treat their frequent headaches...