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...ladled on some soft soap before setting off for Genoa last week, calling Dubya "a little bit sentimental." But Putin has also demonstrated why he won't be easy to roll. Besides inking the treaty with China, he has repeatedly warned that Russia will cram more warheads atop its missiles if Bush abandons the ABM treaty...
...exchanges come on top of two attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab world...
...survivors may have set up colonies there - and hundreds of men succumbed to disease. Zheng He, too, died on his final, seventh voyage and was buried at sea. Ma Huan, a translator on several of Zheng He's expeditions, recalls how Saint Elmo's fire once blazed atop the mast of the treasure ship, prompting a shaken Zheng He to offer more lavish sacrifices to Tianfei...
...residence. Couples can exclude as much as $500,000 of gain ($250,000 for singles) when selling any house they've lived in for at least two of the previous five years. Thanks to a torrid real estate market, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of upscale homeowners now sit atop such fat gains. If you're one of them, it's decision time. Moving is a hassle, but not moving could mean forfeiting six-figure tax savings on future appreciation...
...horns and synthesizers, proceed to harmonize Crosby, Stills and Nash-style before they let loose with pounding real-life drums and electric guitar. Mason's baritone is only slightly brighter than Ringo Starr's, and his delivery is just as lackadaisical. His voice is merely the cool whipped cream atop the shimmering Jell-O mound of guitar and synthesizer sounds; the words he utters are of secondary importance. "You can go outside where the love of the people will find you," he sings on "Elapsed Time"; "We all live together on a little round ball," he chants on "Eclipse...