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...GAZA STRIP: Palestinians are blaming Israelis for the death of Yehiya Ayyash, a Palestinian terrorist known as "The Engineer," who was killed today by explosives concealed in a mobile phone. "Israel is behind this attack. It carried it out through its agents in the area," a spokesman for the radical Islamic group Hamas declared. While not admitting responsibility, Israeli officials didn't mince words. "I think he deserves it," Police Minister Moshe Shala commented. "He injured many innocent people, children, young people, civilians, the elderly." Ayyash has topped the Israeli police most wanted list following a wave of suicide bombings...
...series of crucial discoveries suggests that some of the Bible's more ancient tales are also based firmly on real people and events. In 1990, Harvard researchers working in the ancient city of Ashkelon, north of the Gaza Strip, unearthed a small silver-plated bronze calf figurine reminiscent of the huge golden calf mentioned in the Book of Exodus. In 1986, archaeologists found the earliest known text of the Bible, dated to about 600 B.C. It suggests that at least part of the Old Testament was written soon after some of the events it describes. Also in 1986, scholars identified...
...Vegas Strip just lost some of its luster. After a number of close calls, including an October 30 incident in which a co-pilot had to take the controls from a temporarily blinded pilot, the Food and Drug Administration has ordered Las Vegas casinos to shut down their nightly laser light shows over the city. The FDA, which regulates lasers because of their use as medical devices, made the order in response to complaints from pilots who have been momentarily blinded as light beams flash through their cockpits. The problem has accelerated in the past two years as a number...
Thinking vaguely of the Civil War as some distant, tragic conflict is dangerous. But if we strip away scales of historical amnesia and remember that the Civil War was a struggle between competing moral conceptions, one good and one evil, we must oppose any memorial which includes Confederate names...
...with Mexico is delivered by truck, and most of that cargo travels through Texas. The major route is Interstate 35, running north-south through several of the state's major cities--San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth. Specialized trucking firms called drayage companies haul goods in a narrow strip of U.S. territory along the border, where they exchange cargoes for transshipment to border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into Mexico. More than a fourth of the approximately...