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...pair fought a border war in 1998-2000 in which tens of thousands died. Wounds from that fight are still fresh, and the border dispute remains unresolved. On occasion, Somalia has served both countries as a battleground for proxy wars. With such a confluence of conflict, the nightmare scenario has long been a regional war that engulfs the Horn, perhaps impeding Suez Canal shipping traffic. According to a Western official in Addis, Ethiopia is "the center of gravity" in this game of African Risk...
...reverse order: the host eats pizza for a week and then publicly joins a fitness group. "In each case," the psychologists wrote in a 2005 paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, "the statements and behaviors are equally inconsistent." But we see something almost noble about the second scenario...
...second scenario: Israel invades a broad swath of northern Gaza as far as the teeming Jabaliya refugee camp, pushing the rocketeers back out of range of Sderot and other Israeli communities. In this plan, Israel would also turn a corridor along the Philadelphi Road, between Gaza and Egypt, into a no-man's land to stop smugglers from bringing more weapons into Gaza through an underground maze of tunnels. Israel would also cut off Gaza's electricity, gas and water, in what deputy premier Haim Ramon described as "a price tag" that Israel should stick on every rocket fired...
...comment on the delicate subject of Nokia's services push. "Clearly, there are tensions. This puts them on a collision course with some their customers," says Ben Wood, a director with London telecom consultancy CCS Insight. But Wood noted that operators should consider what he called a "greater good" scenario in which customers who buy a Nokia phone through the operator might dip more into the operators own service offerings as well...
...Jansen once wrote: "It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out." For many scientists, this scenario might account for the sort of speculation just summarized. While most researchers concede that there's a lot about NDEs we don't know, they reject the push to replace tried-and-tested paradigms with new (largely untestable) ones in an attempt to fill the gaps...