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...Israelis ended with nearly three times their original territory. They annexed East Jerusalem to Israel and pronounced it the nation's capital. Israeli leaders thought a rapid negotiation would give their state some security in return for most of the captured land going back to the Arabs. But there came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt...
...there are two other panic attacks under way that should unfold in rapid fashion this week: first, if current trends hold, it may turn out that the Senate cannot even manage a much promised vote on whether the President's "surge" is a good idea. And thanks in part to that, the President's nominee to take over the embattled, overstretched and increasingly underequipped Army - a man who opposed the surge for most of the last year - now may have trouble being confirmed...
These concerns aside, the EPC deserves kudos for their success and the speed with which they achieved it. The rapid progress of the secondary field program demonstrates what can be accomplished at Harvard with resources, focus, and a concerted effort toward a concrete goal. We hope that other programs in the future can demonstrate such success just a few months after their initial approval...
...have created. An increasing number of airlines and travel agents do offer such options. The London-based CarbonNeutral Company reports that requests for carbon offsetting from individual travelers have jumped over the past six months. But the still tiny number of neutralized flights can hardly compensate for the rapid increases in global air travel...
...more concern for Japan is the sense that Yubari may provide a glimpse of the future - 41% of Yubarians are older than 65, mirroring Japan's own rapid graying. The city's population is shrinking, as is Japan's as a whole. And, thanks to its massive debt, Yubarians will pay more for less - as may all Japanese if the aging country can't reverse the trend of shrinking incomes and shrinking hope...