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...trial date was set for March 19, and Piek said the unusual turn of events was proof that the Army "steadfastly protects the rights of the accused...
...shabab, the Palestinian youths with stones. The soldiers were driving fast, as they do in the territories, their radio antennas whipping like a fly-fisherman's rod with a trout on the line. The soldiers' weapons bristled from the sides of the jeeps, and they wore heavy, stone-proof hard plastic helmets with wraparound clear visors that hid their faces -- a space- alien effect. ''We should go back to see what happens,'' the passenger said, unthinkingly. The driver lit a fresh cigarette from the one now burning down to his fingertips and drove impassively on, away from the violence...
...Seracini is the only real-life character mentioned in the book, as the man who "unveiled the unsettling truth" about Leonardo. Seracini has devoted 30 years to the task, interpreting ancient diaries and city records to try to locate the spot where the uncompleted masterpiece was painted. He has proof, he says, that Giorgio Vasari, the artist who renovated this hall in 1563 and painted the mural that covers it today, was an admirer of Leonardo's and had "saved" other works of his behind interior walls. Seracini says his ultrasound instruments have detected gaps behind the giant mural that...
...French, and they'll tell you that their nation's birthrate and high rate of working women of childbearing age is proof that there really is something to the vaunted French balance between work and life. (Mind you, some might say that it's not that hard to have a work-life balance when the standard work week is just 35 hours.) Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal is an unmarried mother of four, and plainly thinks that such a status - making her a symbol of the Frenchwoman's ability to balance a career and motherhood...
...high prices confined to a few Chinese stocks. Webb estimates that the average P/E for "A" shares (stocks available to mainland investors on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses) is 34; the current P/E for U.S. stocks in the S&P 500 Index is 18. Want more proof? A report by investment bank JPMorgan notes that of 37 Chinese companies listed jointly in Shanghai and Hong Kong, eight trade on the mainland at valuations at least double those quoted in Hong Kong. "The risk-reward picture is unhealthy at the moment," says Frank Gong, JPMorgan's chief economist for China...