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When the time came, the banking network was indeed stretched thin. Banksys, the group that operates Belgium's ATMs, recorded about 600 cash withdrawals a minute in the first two hours of the new year. Some 200 Dutch post offices kept their doors closed on the morning of Jan. 2--the first business day of the euro era--because the postal bank, which handles the largest number of small bank accounts in the Netherlands, was not ready for the transition. In France, many motorways backed up as drivers eager to break francs into euro change skipped the credit-card...
...psychogeriatric wards at Abarbanel. It's a hut built by the British army to handle mentally disturbed World War II soldiers. "If you'd been stuck in this place for 50 years, you wouldn't be doing very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move was the climax of the campaign by Barak, Szor and Mark to have survivors treated...
...leading up to the Jan.1 switch, there were still a few nagging anxieties that the euro could turn out to be a Y2K-like disaster for real. But those visions of self-destructing cash machines and riots in supermarkets didn't materialize. True, the banking network was stretched pretty thin. Banksys, the group that operates Belgium's atms, recorded some 600 cash withdrawals a minute in the first two hours of the new year. Two hundred Dutch post offices, which also function as banks for many small savers, weren't ready to open their doors on Jan. 2, the first...
Last week, Israeli security forces seized a boat in the Red Sea loaded with a deadly cargo of weaponry. At a moment when the Middle East is perilously balanced on the verge of open war, this development threatens to remove even the region’s thin veneer of peace. Reports that the 80 tons of weapons, including long-range rockets, were purchased by the Palestinian Authority (PA) support the repeated claims of the Israeli government that PA Chair Yasser Arafat is a dangerous man, ready and willing to resort to terrorism to achieve his aims...
...superficial window-dressing; they are hopelessly myopic, and do not cut to the heart of the issue. At best, the above solutions would temporarily check grade inflation, would sweep the proverbial mess under the rug, would cover the thick cracks in the house that is Harvard with merely a thin layer of paint...