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...have owned my favorite pair of flip flops (purple, rubber, from the Gap) for better than four years. Two seconds and I’m out the door. They’re summery. I could walk all day in them...
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official reason for his weekend resignation was the cabinet's final rubber stamp vote on Israel's withdrawal from its Gaza Strip settlements, which is due to begin next week. The real motivation for quitting now lies a lot more than a week away-it's next year's Israeli general election. By resigning, Netanyahu believes he'll be able to capitalize on any problems Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon runs into with the "disengagement plan," particularly if Palestinian militants launch rocket attacks over the fence into Israel once the soldiers leave Gaza...
...didn't even exist when the Challenger crashed: Homeland Security. "There are no survivors," the President said, but by then we had been watching the endless video of what looked like the shooting stars of August, knowing that those bright white puffs of star were made of metal and rubber and men and women. Like other fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while it felt like an attack on the calm of this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits...
...dragging their luggage and belongings in the streets which had been closed by police, desperate to leave as soon as possible. Khaled Barakat, the Egyptian manager of a water sports shop, stood dazed and staring past a police cordon at the remains of the marketplace strewn with glass, burned rubber and car parts. "It's shock," he said. "I've been living here 15 years and I can't believe it." He said he worries the pristine resort town on the tip of the Sinai peninsula will never be the same. "Everyone always says Sharm is the safest place...
That made his practice session with Hyde all the more important. “He was going to throw from behind the pitcher’s rubber like it was the baseline in tennis, so I had to get him straightened out,” Hyde recalled. “I told him they’d probably have him throw from 45 feet or something. But Larry said, ‘No, if I’m going to do this, I’m going to do it from the full distance...