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...Which leaves Israel. Are the Israelis, who have a lot more on their minds than the price of gas in the United States, going to launch a pre-emptive attack? One hard and fast rule in the Middle East is never rule out Israel's readiness to turn the table over. But an Israeli hawk on Iran, with close ties to Israel's Ministry of Defense, told me to forget about it. "There's not a chance Israel will do anything. Maybe there's a window after the American elections and the new President but even that's doubtful. Washington...
...same effect, on average, it may make sense for people to consider living in a better-lit environment," he says. While experts don't feel the results are enough to constitute a treatment for symptoms, when it comes to staving off the mental decline of dementia, a new rule of thumb might be "Let there be light...
...loose nukes, it has been dealing with fallout from its decision to award a $35 billion next-generation aerial tanker contract to a firm partly owned by a European consortium instead of the Boeing Co. That choice has generated howls from Capitol Hill, and the Government Accountability Office will rule on the propriety of that award later this month. Gates has been upset over the Air Force's failure to provide more unmanned drones to funnel additional intelligence to the U.S. troops now fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead, the Air Force has been arguing that it needs...
...Judge Kohlman must soon rule, for example, on whether Guantanamo's top legal adviser, Brig. Gen. Hartmann, has unduly interfered in the case. If the ruling should go against Hartmann, many observers believe he could be removed or forced to resign. And that might be important, because Hartmann has recently pushed hard to conduct trials as quickly as possible, although that haste was not evident during years when the accused were held in prison after their capture...
...their respective countries by wide margins, Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand and Joseph Estrada of the Philippines were tossed out of office before their terms were up when public opinion turned against them. In recent parliamentary elections in Malaysia, victories by opposition party politicians weakened a coalition that has ruled the country for decades, paralyzing the government. In Indonesia, the end of 32 years of Suharto's authoritarian rule has fractured the world's fourth most populous nation along religious, ideological and regional lines, turning policymaking into a morass of intragovernmental wrangling...