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...Israel the latest hostage taking also represented an opportunity. For almost six years since Israel had quit southern Lebanon, the Israelis watched Hizballah build fortifications along the border and stockpile rockets and missiles. Of late, Hizballah's charismatic leader, Hasan Nasrallah, had explicitly threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers, and Jerusalem believes it thwarted at least two attempts by his fighters to do just that. Army brass had urged the political leadership to respond with precisely the kind of campaign Olmert has initiated, and Israeli forces practiced just such an operation in a tabletop exercise as recently as two months...
...retirement in 2003 to run the service, told a congressional committee last month that defense spending during World War II neared 40% of GDP; it is now 3.8% and shrinking. He is frustrated, says a retired general who is a friend of Schoomaker's. Frustrated enough to quit if funding isn't boosted? Says his friend: "Absolutely...
Nine of the 10 members of Gross’s senior staff took their current posts after Gross took charge of Harvard’s undergraduate branch, and at least seven senior College administrators have either quit or been forced to leave during his tenure...
...investigators already agree: lung cancer is particularly deadly (85% of patients die within five years of their diagnosis) and almost entirely preventable (85% of people with lung cancer are current or former smokers). So the take-home message is clear: don't smoke--and if you do smoke, quit. You would think no one would still have to say that in 2006. But the sad fact of the matter is that more women are smoking--and dying-- than ever before in the U.S., and smoking is also increasing among men and women around the world. No matter what your...
...domestic political damage to Israel's government may be more enduring. With every escalation of the current crisis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plans to make a unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the same lines that Israel quit Gaza last year look less realistic. Opinion polls show as much as half the population is now opposed to going ahead with the plan that had been the centerpiece of Olmert's election campaign...