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...battlefield, and despite an Israeli onslaught that has targeted the group's top brass and top guns, the organization has proved more resilient than many expected. Across southern Lebanon, Hizballah fighters have manned batteries firing as many as 350 rockets a day at Israeli cities and towns, from an arsenal estimated at 13,000 projectiles. At least 100 of the more than 900 missiles fired at Israel have hit Haifa, the nation's third-largest city, while one radar-guided antiship missile (the C-802), a gift to Hizballah from its Iranian sponsors, struck an Israeli gunboat off the coast...
...hearings, Senators are insisting on a guest-worker plan, while hard-liners in the House refuse to accept any such accommodation. Fed up with all that congressional talk and the lack of national legislation, cities across the U.S. are passing local laws to deter illegal immigrants from coming to town. An ordinance will go into effect this week in Vista, Calif.--a San Diego suburb--that requires employers to register with the city before using day laborers, many of whom are illegal immigrants. They must also report whom they hire. The coal town of Hazleton...
...group, says is "unconstitutional and discriminatory." Perales cites a legal analysis by the bipartisan Congressional Research Service that suggests Hazleton's ordinance, by creating penalties for those who aid immigrants, may be trampling on an area of law that is under federal jurisdiction. "You can't have every little town deciding the conditions under which illegal immigrants are going to live there," he says. For now, at least, some communities seem determined...
Aesih Irawan was drinking iced tea at a friend's house near the beach in Pangandaran, a resort town on the Indonesian island of Java, when the ocean crashed through the living room. The 27-year-old housewife was seized by the churning water and carried hundreds of meters down the beach before she became tangled in cable, which prevented her being swept out to sea. Irawan survived, but almost 700 people were killed, nearly 1,000 injured and some 20,000 families left homeless by the July 17 tsunami that hit a 177-km stretch of Java. Triggered...
...crossed the mountains at Majdal Tarchiche and heard the sounds of jets overhead. I had been hearing them for days in Beirut, and we both tensed, waiting to hear the boom of an explosion on the road. That did not come until we had descended past the town of Zahle and into the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border. We had stopped the car on a side road so that Ali could hand over his Lebanese mobile-phone chip to a friend heading into the country. The delay turned out to be a godsend. When Ali started...