Word: protector
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Monday's retreat signals mounting panic in the ranks of the SLA, which effectively has been put on notice that their protector will be leaving town. More troubling for Israel is that neither Syria nor Lebanon -- neither of whom are fans of the Hezbollah -- is in any rush to fill the resulting security vacuum. There's little enthusiasm in Beirut for helping the Israelis out of what is perceived as a mess of their own making. And any security deal would have to be approved by Syria, which holds a de facto military veto power over the decisions...
...CHOICE BETWEEN THE SURGE PROTECTOR AND SIMPLE POWER STRIP...
...course, anyone with a pocket protector will point out that labeling Harvard's "biggest" computer requires gross simplification. Are we talking biggest monitor? Biggest capacity? Computer which allows most number of simultaneous log-ons? Computer "size" is truly in the definition of the beholder, and Machine Room #1 can be considered to house the "biggest" only in the sense that its giant is currently devoted to the largest single task of any Harvard computer system...
...used to be -- and maybe it still is -- that making computer games for a living was every adolescent?s dream, at least among the pocket protector crowd. Sleep all day, play with Nerf toys all night, drink Mountain Dew -- what could be better? And computer games are selling better than ever -- in 1997, they generated $5.6 billion in revenues. But a rash of lawsuits and recalls in the past few months is teaching the industry a tough lesson: Becoming a mainstream medium brings with it responsibility. MORE...
...details to focus on the world's economic crisis or the new era of European unification marked by the debut of the euro. In the face of such disarray, many Europeans are beginning to turn away from the country they once respected as a defender of democratic ideals and protector of peoples too weak to protect themselves...