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Cinema fans will note a similarity between the New Zealand settlement and the 1959 anti-war picture “On the Beach,” about post-nuclear war Australians living out their last months with the specter of radioactive clouds approaching the continent...
...Countries are entitled to claim an exclusive zone extending 200 nautical mi. (370 km) from their coast. "When countries have overlapping claims," says Nuno Antunes, East Timor's legal adviser, "the best settlement is to be found in international law." Citing 75 precedents, he says equidistance is the key principle. But a median line would put all the petroleum reserves on Timor's side. Australia argues that the contours of the seabed are unique. "We have successfully established that the natural promulgation of the continent extends to the Timor Trough," says an Australian official involved in the talks last month...
...million Settlement to be paid by Pfizer for marketing Neurontin, an epilepsy drug, for uses not approved...
...people but did not kill any of the group's leaders. Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad and Hamas fighters are focusing on soldiers and settlers in Palestinian areas instead of hitting Israeli towns, Hamas leaders tell TIME. The shooting of an Israeli woman and her four daughters near a Gaza settlement two weeks ago was the start of the new strategy...
...aspirations. And that's certainly how the Palestinians saw it, particularly after Sharon had maneuvered the White House into preemptively rejecting any discussion of a right of return for Palestinian refugees, and also reversing decades of U.S. policy by endorsing Israel's claim to annex the main West Bank settlement blocs...