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Traditional stone walls help protect Palestinian land
Aug 6th, 2012
It has taken four years for Amer Dahabreh to build a traditional stone wall around his land, in what appears to be the ideal solution for protecting it from Jewish settlers. (Source: AFP) -
With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable - 50-million-year-old monitor lizards, stingrays and freakishly long-tailed turtles among them. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - When President Obama comes to Belfast, he's expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come tumbling down. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth. The U.S. space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially planet-killing NEOs - near Earth objects - with a diameter of .62 miles or more, a size comparabl... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - A $20 billion plan to gird New York with levees, flood gates and other defenses is a bold stroke from a mayor who saw the city through Superstorm Sandy and has championed preparedness for global warming. But the future of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping proposals will largely rest with his successor. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
PARIS (AP) - A state-funded museum in Paris is causing outrage among France's Jewish community for staging a photo exhibition that calls Palestinian suicide bombers "martyrs." (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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