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...Netanyahu government, like its predecessors, makes a distinction between what it calls "legal" settlements like the Gush Etzion bloc (pop. 75,000) and "illegal" outposts deeper in the West Bank. Within sight of the Arab city of Nablus, settler Itay Zar, 33, lives in a two-room shanty with his wife and their five children, above a stretch of road at risk from Palestinian snipers. Zar's father, Moshe Zar, is one of the biggest - and therefore most despised by Palestinians - Jewish buyers of Arab land in the West Bank. Zar grew up in the West Bank. His outpost - named...
...reaches its twin peaks the weeks of Memorial Day and July 4, then gradually subsides. We're still in midsummer, yet there's only one ginormous action adventure (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) awaiting release, and not a cartoon hero or a dinosaur - or a cartoon dinosaur - in sight. Suddenly it's the time of real people learning how to cope with recognizable problems. The Hollywood kind of problems - the ones that can be solved in under two hours. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...choice does, perhaps, induce a sense of discomfort in tourists. It isn’t the neat, tidy housekeeping that sight-seers (myself included when I travel) tend to appreciate when they visit a place. Tourists often want to know what they are seeing and why it is important in one minute or less—as if to say, “Good, now we’ve done this. Next.” The way the Roman forum is set up does not allow for that. One has to sit or stand, staring and discerning, guidebook in hand...
...parents could afford to rent her a dormitory room and, later, an off-campus apartment. But when their budget became tighter last year, she had to move back home. Now she commutes to school, a 90-minute train ride away. Fernández doesn't see any end in sight to her dependency. "My father worked as a machinery operator, my mother is a housewife. They put me through school so that I'd have a better life than they did," she says. "It's really hard for them to understand why I can't find...
...size of Cape Cod - has 22 miles of bike paths, on which mopeds are not allowed. The Bermuda Railway Trail follows an old rail bed and traverses the entire string of eight islands that make up the inhabited parts of Bermuda. Cyclists on the path are never out of sight of the islands' clear waters, craggy bluffs and white-roofed cottages. Bike rentals cost about $10 per day or $50 per week; at some hotels, they are free. Remember to ask for a "pedal bike" when renting; if you ask for a bicycle, you'll get a moped. (See TIME...