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• The Hamas-Fatah Conflict: Shallow but Wide

While Fayyad's cabinets have not been able to extend their authority outside of West Bank cities and towns, the resumption of Israeli revenue transfers (Israel collects a large portion of Palestinian tax revenues when goods destined for Palestinian markets pass through Israeli ports) and a massive international assistance effort has assured the fiscal health of the Ramallah-based PA since June 2007. West Bank civil servants have been paid almost regularly, despite some unpaid arrears and delays in assistance delivery; debilitating restrictions on movement have been diminished; and the Ramallah PA security services have cracked down on Hamas and launched a law-and-order campaign on West Bank streets, which have earned Israeli praise and facilitated the partial relaxation of strangulatin...

• The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 2, July 2010

• ; but the Question Remains: Wrong Address in Winslow?

The Maine Department of Public Safety on Friday released written transcripts of the 911 calls involving the murder of Sarah Gordon in Winslow on June 6, shedding new light on the emergency response. But the transcripts, created in response to an open records request by the Morning Sentinel, still don't answer a fundamental question: Why were police initially dispatched to the wrong address?

• Portland Press Herald
• August 22, 2011

• Recent Rains Have Been Nice, but the Heat Is Unbearable

Well, it's been a week of it. I never saw such heat in all my days. One morning at 5 a.m. it was 83, not one piece of breeze a blowing. I know I have drank enough tea and water to float a ship. I just can't stand it when it's 110, 108, 109 degrees day after day. Thank God my air conditioner held out and is doing fine. I could not go to the museum at all, it was like an oven in there. I had the freezer full of ice and making more. I've been living on tomato sandwiches and I love 'em. I cooked a big pan of fried apples and I'm still eating on them; they were so good, chunks of bacon mixed with the apples. My good friend, Mary in town, one of my readers, sent me a big rice pudding and 10 pieces of her barbecue chicken. That sure came in good, but I did have some trouble. Last Tuesday one o...

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• August 07, 2011

• Resources, but the Rewards Are Great

Jennifer Murray tossed an $8 toothbrush into her cart. It was on sale for $5.99. Her Rite Aid Wellness Card would give her $2.99 in store credit. She had a $3 coupon. In other words, the toothbrush was free. Stuff gets expensive, and nowadays, anything more than having one kid is a big family, said Murray, 38, who lives with her three daughters and boyfriend in East Millinocket. If I can stretch a dollar, Im going to mcoake it go as far as I can.

• Bangor Daily News
• June 11, 2011

• Feeling Mixed Emotions As Current Ends but the Burgs Begins

Our newsroom bustled last week as we prepared to launch The Burgs, a new print publication and website. We're excited about the changes, and confident you will find the content both informative and engaging, but also empathetic to readers concerned because the New River Current will end publication on Wednesday.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• October 03, 2011

• Senate Rejects Energy Bill -- Again; but the Energy Industry Is Amply Funding Its Champions' Re-Election

This spring, as American drivers faced record-high prices at the gas pump, Republican lawmakers thought their stars had finally aligned. By preying on the panicky public consumer, and emphasizing the need to increase domestic drilling, they thought they could pass the energy bill -- and have a ready-made election-year platform: "I'm glad oil prices are up, I'm glad gas prices are up," Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told the press in March. "I'm sorry I'm not running this year. [Pete Domenici] and Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., dropped some of the bill's more controversial aspects, including a provision that would have exempted MTBE gasoline-additive producers from liability for groundwater contamination. Then they split the energy package and attached portions of it onto a sure-to-pass bill draf...

• High Country News
• July 29, 2009

• The government has been raiding raw-milk sellers, purportedly for selling a dangerous product. But the FDA is holding the sellers to a higher standard than other producers.

On the morning of August 3, 2011, armed agents of the U.S. government and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office conducted a raid on a small private ...

• The New American
• January 23, 2012

• Circus Blizzard of 1980: The Show Goes On, but Little Else

The weather had yo-yoed between winter and spring several times by the end of February 1980. More than 5 inches of snow fell on Jan. 5, then 4 inches on Jan. 31, followed by an amazing 12.4 inches on Feb. 6, the most that had dropped in Norfolk on a single day since 1892. An entire year's snowfall in Hampton Roads was usually just a tad more than 7 inches. Everyone - TV weathermen, headline writers, even the National Weather Service - called February's storm the snow of the century. Three days later, another 6.5 inches fell, but about two weeks after that the temperature shot up to 70 degrees. Short sleeves and roller skates came out, windows opened and the sun shone. Norfolk had already had 28.2 inches of snow that year. Surely winter was over. In late February, the circus opened a...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• March 02, 2011

• It Wasn't Just the Win, but the Opponent

Ralph Aceto was alone on the softball diamond Tuesday night at Wainwright Field, reflecting on South Portland's 3-1 victory over Scarborough. It was a scary but fun game to be a part of," said Red Riots Coach Aceto. "Any time you're a coach you love to have games like that. It as a little nerve-wracking in terms of trying to sneak one across.

• Portland Press Herald
• May 26, 2011

• The Food Thrills but No Frills at Sly's

NORMAL - Slys Barbecue makes the following disclaimer as its motto: "No frills. Just barbecue."Whether youre scouting eateries in a big city like Chicago or the more modest-sized Normal, sometimes its the no-frills diners that make your day.No offense to the restaurants that have put great effort into dcor, but theres a soft spot with this customer for the joint that uses humble tables and chairs, doesnt apologize for it and has something special to offer.Part-owner Robert "Sly" Garrett recalls with a laugh, "One guy comes in and says, Wheres the tablecloths?"He and nephews Davin and Dekar Garrett opened Slys last summer at 616 W. Raab Road, Normal. It offers ribs, tips, hot links, chicken, wings. No tablecloths. And vegetarians, theres nothing for you here, except the fries, bread and ...

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• April 10, 2006