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...early scenes, at a boozy Jerusalem party of jaded journos, Sacco muses that "They could file last month's story today - or last year's, for that matter - and who'd know the difference?" That's sadly true; a British colleague of mine once accidentally sent the wrong computer file to his editors in London, who dutifully ran his stale Gaza story without noticing that they'd run the same piece a week before. There is a numbing sameness to stories about Gaza, but Sacco's illustrations, backed by his methodical research, bring the Gaza of 1956 bleakly to life...
...April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice but to fight . "Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today," Dayan said at the funeral. "For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate... Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds...
...site-specific example, in Southern Thailand converting mangroves into commercial shrimp farms yields financial returns of about $1,220 per hectare per year. However, this does not consider the rehabilitation costs of $9,318 per hectare necessary when the area has been "shrimped out" after five or ten years. Other economic benefits the mangroves provide include: collected wood and other forest products; cultivation for off-shore fisheries; and coastal protection against storms, a total of $12,392 per hectare over the course of nine years. If the developer were accountable for the mangrove depletion, would you still want to invest...
...definitely think we have a good sense of what kind of team they are this year, what their strengths and weaknesses are,” co-captain Kathryn Farni said...
...leading scorer and finalist for the ECAC Best Defensive Forward Award. The Clarkson offense also features third-team all-ECAC forward Dominique Thibault, second in the ECAC in goals with 21 and points with 39. Forward Juana Baribeau and left wing Melissa Waldie both have 16 goals on the year as well...