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...When it is in stock, it's the Nintendo Wii. I have never seen a game format a year and a half after it was introduced arrive and then disappear. It's extraordinary. There are a whole series of game products that have been a huge hit, like Grand Theft Auto. GPS products have had extraordinary rates of growth. Another category is notebook computers, which nobody really thought would grow as fast as they are right...
...People think of copper as cheap, like sand," says OneBeacon Insurance Group executive Charlie Sidoti. "But now you have to think of it like gold. You would never leave gold sitting out in the yard." OneBeacon estimates that it has seen a 300% increase in claims of copper theft in the past 18 months. Home foreclosures have worsened the trend, as empty buildings are easy targets for the time-consuming task of ripping out pipes and wiring. In California, theft of copper irrigation systems has damaged tomato and alfalfa crops. And churches and schools all over the U.S. are sweating...
...violence in South Africa [June 2] is shocking and embarrassing to witness. Apart from the official reasons given, the problem boils down to "have and have not." Many South Africans - those who have built a life with the fruits of their labor - have suffered heavy losses through violence and theft. The criminals are said to be opportunists and not necessarily part of an organized group, but the relative inefficiency with which the government dealt with the violence poses the question: How long before mobs turn on the middle and upper income groups to kill them or drive them...
...blame Israelis for being disgusted with their politicians? A sex scandal brought down the last President; a former Finance Minister faces indictment over alleged fraud, theft and money-laundering; and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may be indicted for taking more than $150,000, mostly in cash, from a New York businessman. A popular bumper sticker says, OLMERT, YOU DISGUST ME. The deepening sense of odium is reflected in Olmert's single-digit popularity ratings. He may be forced to resign within weeks, and already politicians have begun to handicap the succession...
...massive displacement of people that resulted from Israel’s founding 60 years ago is the object of willful forgetting in American foreign policy and of baffling ignorance by the American public in general. How else could we justify the massive and ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ native land since the mid-20th century—subsidized annually with upwards of three billion dollars from the U.S. government—while we correctly enforce the right of Jewish refugees to recover European properties from which they were displaced in the mid-20th century...