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...passenger’s body for guns and explosives and aims to increase the efficiency of secondary searches, which are conducted only after passengers have passed through the metal detector. The scanner provides those passengers selected for such searches with a less intrusive alternative to the pat-down or strip search. The machine is still in its testing stages, but is scheduled to eventually make its way into JFK and Los Angeles International airports...
...Potential donors are worried that charity will be wasted or create dependence," says Jonathan Morduch, an economics professor at New York University. But the most influential microlenders--Yunus' Grameen Bank, FINCA, Acción International--are self-sustaining and profitable. They strip away the bureaucracy common to aid programs of governments and large foundations, and repayment rates of 97% are the norm...
...wariness over Hamas is shared by U.S. and Palestinian officials. They told TIME that Hamas - despite its public commitment to a new coalition government with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - has used a five-month cease-fire with Israeli forces to stage an unprecedented arms build-up in the Gaza strip. "They're armed to the teeth," said one senior U.S. official. "This is not like your average little militia." Indeed, one Israeli official said that, in recent months, Hamas has sent "dozens" of militants to Iran for advanced training in weapons that can destroy aircraft and tanks. Hamas insists that...
...Israelis say Hamas is amassing weapons in Gaza, a 40-km-long sandy strip bordering Egypt with 1.4 million Palestinians, many of them refugees. One Israeli official said that Hamas, using tunnels into Egypt, had smuggled in over 31 tons of high-quality explosives, six times more than in 2005. Israelis say that Hamas now has rockets capable of accurately striking Ashkelon, a major seaport 15 km north of Gaza...
...snowmelt in the Alps), the Dutch are radically revising traditional flood-management thinking. Instead of trying to contain floods, they will accommodate the extra water flow by allowing predesignated areas to flood. The strategy is called Living with Water. Near Nijmegen, the oldest town in Holland, a sparsely populated strip of land that is home to farms and a nature reserve will be allowed to flood to spare the more heavily populated areas downstream. Birds in the nature preserve can fly away until the waters recede, but not homeowners, who have protested. One lesson, says Bas Jonkman, an adviser...