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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jewish joke goes, "How do you make a Romanian omelet? First, steal two eggs." Glass's programs sound as if their creator began by stealing a microphone. He finds--uncovers--drama and humor in the most pedestrian of places. O thou woods colt of Lord Buckley, out of Diane Arbus. Go thou and conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ira Glass | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...year-old boys, one an American citizen, from the Tekoa settlement on the West Bank marked a new escalation in the conflict. Palestinian officials condemned the killings as well, but neither side offered a way out of the spiral of death. The widening violence also saw two Romanian migrant workers killed by a bomb while repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza. By week's end, the Israeli army had launched seven incursions into Palestinian-held territory, including a missile attack on a car in the West Bank that killed a policeman and an activist in Yasser Arafat's Fateh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...deaths were not the only awful landmarks of the week, in a struggle where an outrage by one side is followed by an outrage from the other. In Gaza, a four-month-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli tank shell became the youngest victim of the violence. Two Romanian immigrant workers mending a security fence at the Gaza border were blown up by Palestinians. Settlers stoned Palestinians on the roads through Gush Etzion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Terrible Tide Of Blood | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Galilee); Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (the Jordan); Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and others (the Nile); Senegal and Mauritania (the Senegal); and Iran and Afghanistan (the Helmand). ? In some places, water that is shared by nations has been poisoned - sometimes accidentally, as in last year's Romanian cyanide spill in the Tisza and Danube Rivers, and sometimes naturally, as in arsenic poisoning of groundwater in India and Bangladesh in recent years. More than 200 river basins are shared, and about half of them are in Europe and Africa, according to the Pacific Institute. Nineteen basins are shared by more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dried Out | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...were serving FRIED BABIES. Internet photos of the alleged baby eating turned out to be subversive artwork by Chinese artist Zhu Yu. The Taiwanese government reassured its meat-loving masses that while the island has a law against serving babies, they can eat all the dog meat?local or Romanian?they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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