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...Pentagon offered to supply Israel with "bunker-buster" bombs, capable of punching deep into the enemy's underground defenses. Israel's air force chief at the time, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, - who, as Chief of Staff, is currently commanding Israel's air, sea and land strikes in Lebanon - rejected Washington's offer, claiming that Israel had its own superb weapons. But with the "bunker-busters", says a senior Tel Aviv intelligence source, Israel could have knocked out most of Hizballah's rocket-launchers and possibly brought the war to an early close...
...Instead, as the war drags into a fifth week, Hizballah is still pounding Israel's northern cities with over 150 rockets a day. Though Israeli intelligence determined early on exactly where most of those rockets were being fired from - launchers hidden in 38 underground bunkers, burrowed 6 yards down on rocky hilltops across southern Lebanon - Halutz's vaunted Israeli-made "air fuel" bombs have failed to destroy them. So last month, a top intelligence source told TIME, Israel put in an urgent request for precision-guided, 5,000 lb "bunker-buster" bombs. The Bush Administration complied, but it will take...
...There are other ways to keep ourselves amused at the TIME house. Alcohol is readily available in Baghdad, even though extremist Islamic groups have recently bombed some booze shops, forcing others to go underground. Friends and family are always sending care packages full of DVDs, music, books and magazines - even video-game software. Our neighborhood cable guy has hooked us up to dozens of channels, which means I can watch Letterman as I nod off to sleep...
...Further north, the magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...
...What the action has done is send a wave of fear among the immigrant community and Hispanics in general further driving workers and businesses that use them underground. "I think what is worrying some individuals is that it will drive this whole industry and workforce into the shadows even more and have more people pay cash instead of checks," Angelo I. Amador, Director of Immigration Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which favors comprehensive immigration reform...