Word: zeros
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Most observers do not expect the Hamas leadership to provoke civil war deliberately, at least not now. Instead of aiming its fire at Arafat's forces, Hamas is expected to zero in on Israeli targets. During noon prayers at the Palestine Mosque last Friday, Sheik Said Siam vowed, "Our weapons will not accept any address except the chests of the Zionist enemy." Since Bloody Friday, there have been seven attacks or attempted attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in the Gaza Strip...
...Palestinian officials, backed by the U.S. and Israel, will lobby international donors this week in Brussels to give the Palestinian Authority significant funding. Foreign aid is especially important now, since, as Khaled Abdul-Shafi, a Gaza economist, notes, "what happened last Friday reduces the chances of private investment to zero...
...Wennberg notes that the mechanism by which aircraft exhaust is diffused has yet to be explained. "If 10 percent of the exhaust is transported upwards in the atmosphere and 90 percent down, the net ozone loss would be zero," Wennberg says...
...make matters worse, frustrated aides report zero progress in persuading Arafat to change his habit of managing by dictate. He still refuses to create an accounting system that would satisfy would-be givers of international aid. As a result, of $550 million in assistance pledged for this year, only $50 million has been received. Arafat is also hampered by bitter divisions among his lieutenants. According to two senior Arafat aides in the territories, Farouk Kaddoumi, the foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, wrote to donor countries from the group's former headquarters in Tunis stating that since their contributions...
...still the children run. Seattle, San Francisco and New York City are among the top destinations. But Hollywood is ground zero. Experts estimate that 10,000 homeless youths are on the streets on any given night in Los Angeles County, maybe 3,000 of them in Hollywood alone. They are lured by the persistent myth that Hollywood is where the rainbow touches down; they remain because it does offer a few shelters and services to the thousands of homeless youths seeking miracles there. For the nation's runaways, Hollywood is like a ) huge electric bug zapper that...