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...Palestinians - is to persuade skeptical Israelis that Palestinians can ensure security inside the West Bank, a first step in building trust that would allow Israel to turn over control to the Palestinian Authority as part of any peace agreement. So far, the plan has succeeded: The streets are safer for ordinary Palestinians, and Israelis have more confidence in their Palestinian security counterparts. But it's precisely because this unit forms part of a plan to prepare the Palestinians to take control of the area that the Hebron settlers are so vehemently opposed - they have no interest in a two-state...
...commander in Afghanistan, believes the militants are now so strong that they pose an "existential threat to the future of Pakistan." Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters at the Pentagon on September 26 that the terrorist safe haven in Pakistan "has gotten safer this year. The insurgency has gotten more sophisticated...
...problem is that other moves the government has made to render bank debt safer has had the unintended consequence of making Fannie and Freddie's bonds less safe by comparison. So Fannie and Freddie's investors have to be compensated for the increased risk. In particular, traders say, the move in the past week by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporary offer unlimited deposit insurance for non-interest bearing accounts and guarantee roughly $1.4 trillion in new unsecured bank debt has caused a rush of selling of the bonds of Fannie and Freddie. That's because the FDIC...
Stadtfeld added that though chemicals do not permanently alter the genetic makeup of the cells, they are not necessarily safer than viruses...
...something funny happened as the Europeans smugly watched the American behemoth stumble: the not-so-almighty dollar began to rise. Since mid-July the greenback has gained more than 16% against the euro. And why? Because for all its troubles, the U.S. still looks like a safer and ultimately more profitable haven than Europe, with its irreducible jobless rate of about 8%, or those trendy emerging markets that have now crashed back to earth. You would have thought the U.S. would be hemorrhaging trillions by now; instead the rest of the world is learning to love its currency again...