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...Avital Leibovitch is constantly reassuring TV audiences worldwide that Israeli troops are going the extra mile to avoid collateral damage in Gaza. However, some Israeli officers speak more bluntly when their audience is domestic. ("We are very violent," the commander of the Israeli army's élite combat engineering unit, Yahalom, told the Israeli press. "We do not balk at any means to protect the lives of our soldiers.") When Israeli forces shelled a United Nations school that left more than 40 dead, the Israeli military initially did its best to back its claim (denied by local U.N. officials) that...
Subaru's customers are, the company admits, a little oddball. How else do you explain the fact that Subaru of America was the only car company to increase unit sales last year? Subaru buyers tend to be overeducated; they buy less car than they can afford and hang on to it forever. "They pay cash, and then you never see them again," says Tim Mahoney, Subaru of America's chief marketing officer. At least not for an average 7.3 years, when they return like migrating carbirds to buy another one. Recession...
Even without answers to these questions, the neonatal unit in the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide is already changing its policies, and giving mothers of premature girls omega-3 capsules through the hospital pharmacy. Makrides says that fish-oil capsules in Australia are stripped of mercury or pesticide residues by law, and so far, taking omega-3 does not seem to have produced any side effects, in either mother or child...
...bombers, snipers, roadside explosives and any number of other gruesome tricks - all of it in alleys and buildings swarming with fearful Palestinian families. On the Israeli side, reservists - who make up more than 5% of the Israeli fighting force - will bear part of the brunt. In one Fire Mountain unit, there's a gardener, a lawyer, an ad exec, an electrical engineer and a redheaded Israeli-American actor from Beverley Hills named Gregory Ross. "I'm so not into thrill seeking," says Ross. "But I'm here to protect my people...
...pony-tailed computer expert named Amit, 32, who is returning to his old infantry unit says: "Its very strange, going from civilian life, and being with my kids, to pointing guns and thinking about killing." He adds: "I can't say I'm not scared...