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...Scenarios of a terrorist strike in the strait vary, but they usually involve hijacking a tanker carrying chemicals, oil or liquefied natural gas. Blowing up an entire tanker is difficult?crude oil does not catch fire easily, for example?but it's not too hard to blast a hole in one so that its cargo is released, creating a maritime disaster. There's also the economic impact. When the oil tanker Limburg was attacked off the coast of Yemen in October 2002, insurance costs for calls to the country's ports rose by some $150,000 per ship. Such...
...talks with Arafat's successors if they reduce anti-Israeli "incitement" in the Palestinian media and schools. But both sides know the era of good feeling may last only until the next terrorist attack. While Abbas is trying to secure an agreement from Hamas and Islamic Jihad not to strike before Jan. 9, Israeli intelligence officials say the threat remains high. "There has been no change in their motivation to commit terrorist attacks," says an Israeli intelligence official. "It's still 100%." --By Romesh Ratnesar, Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein
...pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It’s the same tension that kept characters like Sal Paradise and Holden Caulfield interesting to us when we were sixteen, and Eminem is compelling for the same reasons. Certainly, the joke runs thin sometimes, and his inability to strike a balance between unabashed silliness (“Ass Like That”) and heavy handed seriousness (“Mosh”) is frustrating. But his flow is only getting better, his rhymes more intricately wound and although his beats are often still rather dreary, he?...
...paved the way for a barrage of abuse from the very people who condemned us to this shame: Republicans. Kerry’s loss has damaged my ego more than anything else because at least once a day there’s the chance that some snide conservative might strike, belittling me as they deem me a “whiner” because my candidate didn’t get elected...
Holder Rob Balkema leapt from his crouched position and fired a touchdown strike to linebacker Bobby Everett, crushing Penn’s title hopes...