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...Settlements and peace do not go together." SAEB EREKAT, Palestinian Authority minister, on Israel's plan to build 600 new housing units at its largest West Bank settlement...
...firm, FFIA, in 2000, and the sides have been in sporadic negotiations since then, according to FFIA lawyer Martin F. Murphy. The result was last week’s agreement, in which the government agreed not to pursue its claims against FFIA in return for the settlement payment...
...totalitarian time warp and into a high-tech, hyper-competitive society can be the challenge of a lifetime. To help them assimilate, Seoul gives refugees a two-month-long "life-training" course?teaching such things as how to open a bank account?and a $23,000 settlement payment. They also get a monthly income supplement of up to $375 and help with housing...
...Last week, Unification Minister Chung Dong Young acknowledged the system needs fixing, telling reporters: "This is a nationwide concern." The government is planning to build a new school for teenage defectors. It may also cut settlement payments to refugees who do not take advantage of job-training programs or refuse low-paying jobs. But as the government scrambles to keep up with the swelling tide of defectors, it will have to reckon with the reaction of its neighbor to the North. Last week's arrivals were kept from the media and whisked off for debriefing by security officials...
...grasp its predictive power. Riversleigh, he says, has changed ideas about which creatures should be seen as endangered. Here, the news is good, bad . . . and dire. The koala, for example, appears safer than conservationists had imagined. Its population and habitat have shrunk in the two centuries since European settlement. "But when we go back into the deep time," says Archer, "what we find is that 23 million years ago, koalas were incredibly rare." Of the 30,000 fossils extracted from Riversleigh, just six represent koalas. "They're the Rolls Royce of the fossils in these deposits," Archer says, indicating "koalas...