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...threat. The militants are able to lob dozens of crude, badly aimed rockets into southern Israel, but that may be the limit of their abilities. And Israeli officials are congratulating themselves on their tactics. "Hamas and [Lebanon's] Hizballah are worried that Israel has broken the DNA code of urban fighting," says reserve Brigadier General Shalom Harari, while cautioning that Hamas' military leaders are probably already at work planning ways to block the Israeli military's next assault if fighting in Gaza breaks out again, as it undoubtedly will...
...stay in Paris this week - including canceling a press conference - saying she wanted to get back to school. She says she ultimately hopes to work for women's rights in Yemen; in Paris she discussed the problem of child marriage with France's Human Rights Minister, Rama Yada, and Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara. And Nujood says she has already chosen her future career: "I want be a lawyer...
...that was recorded by the government and broadcast on state-run media, as if to show how closely the opposition was being tracked. More disturbing, however, is the violence allegedly visited on anti-Chávez students by pro-Chávez thugs like La Piedrita, a sort of urban paramilitary group that Chávez has denounced but which the students complain hasn't been restrained. Last week, for example, the car of anti-Chávez student leader Ricardo Sanchez was torched in Caracas. (No one was hurt...
...especially in light the grave modern climate change situation. Payne said that as a nature writer, she finds that humans’ separation from nature is a more severe crisis than either global warming or the decimation of forests. “Most of the world now lives in urban areas. Children watch more T.V. than they play outside,” Payne said. “It’s an attitude change that needs to be reversed.” Audience member and Harvard environmental research librarian George E. Clark said after the talk that people need...
What the volunteers do in Tehran's urban areas, staffs carry out at so-called health stations on the outskirts of the city. In Saloor in Eslamshahr, a poorer satellite city of about half a million outside Tehran, the three nurses in the two-room health station are busy weighing infants, giving vaccines and taking the blood pressure of the mostly elderly visitors, like Mirza Seyyed Hosseini, 75, a shoemaker who drops in on occasion for a multivitamin injection...