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...order finally came on Saturday evening to invade the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas. Following an artillery barrage aimed at detonating buried explosives and mines, Israeli armored columns began moving into Gaza in an apparent attempt to take control of areas used by Palestinian militants to fire rockets into southern Israel. Israeli officials stressed that the objective was to deal further punishing blows to Hamas in the hope of deterring further rocket fire. But although Israel's military spokesman said the invasion would last "many long days," several factors may yet limit the duration of the ground operation...
Bird's-Eye View. Joining the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer before it, the Southern Star observation wheel is Melbourne's newest tourist attraction. A ride in one of the 21 cabins of the 394-ft. wheel (about 40 stories high) offers views of Victoria Harbour and takes about half an hour. The fare is $20 for adults and $12 for kids. Sudholz Street, Melbourne...
...night, so fantasy players, stat geeks and casual fans will have a reason to keep tuning in. "Baseball really has so much more going on, day in and day out, than the other sports, especially football," says David Carter, director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...
...outside the city of Sderot and cheered while watching black pillars of smoke rise over Gaza as a wave of 64 Israeli jet fighters struck again and again. It meant that Israel's leaders were hitting back at the Gaza militants who had rained rockets on the communities of southern Israel even weeks before Dec. 19, when an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas officially ended. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...
...border to Mexico, where NAFTA would enable companies to take advantage of cheap labor. Mexico's average hourly manufacturing wage is still only about 13 percent of that of the U.S., but even with that persistent disparity, most jobs these days aren't being shipped to America's southern neighbor. Instead, they're going to China, whose explosive economic growth in recent years has posed a far more serious threat to all North American employment...