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...Israeli defense minister Ephraim Sneh immediately blamed the Palestinian Authority for the attack, attributing it to the release in recent weeks of scores of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants from Arafat's jails. The attack will sharpen the political dilemma posed by the latest cease-fire for Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Israel had begun withdrawing some of its tanks from the outskirts of Palestinian neighborhoods Thursday, and Arafat's police were seen breaking up demonstrations around Israeli checkpoints following the agreement to try and curb the violence that has claimed 173 lives over the past five weeks...
...WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Both economists are giants in the field of microeconometrics, a discipline straddling the boundaries of statistics and economics. Heckman and McFadden created theory and methods to help sharpen the focus and heighten the accuracy of household polls, which will in turn help sociologists and economists better understand trends in employment, education and demographics...
...wants to sharpen a pencil often the whole row has to get up," she says. "The rows are so close together, when they back up they smash fingers...
...millions of the poorest people in the world. He'd visualized peasant farmers wading into paddies to set out the tender seedlings and winnowing the grain at harvest time in handwoven baskets. He'd pictured small children consuming the golden gruel their mothers would make, knowing that it would sharpen their eyesight and strengthen their resistance to infectious diseases...
...blew through the City College of New York (CCNY) and then the University of California-Berkeley, amazing his professors with his desire to constantly sharpen his intellect...