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...Aviv with his wife and two daughters. His is the difficult life of a soldier, often away from his family for weeks at a time, because his "basic belief is that Israel is in the middle of a 100-year war." Tibon prosecutes that war from Tel Haras base, high on Mount Gerizim. From this bastion, Tibon can pick out a handful of Palestinian cars far below on the otherwise empty streets of Nablus. Israeli tanks are the only other presence on the roads. Tibon discusses supplies of food and medicine to the city's 200,000 residents with...
...exploration in the world. On a global scale, the numbers may seem modest; total proven reserves in the Gulf of Guinea sit at 40 billion barrels, less than one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's 261 billion. But Africa is just getting started. Says Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies...
...multinational cast, which should hardly be surprising in a world where sport, commerce and culture know few borders. Oracle, representing the U.S., draws 28% of its team from New Zealand and 17% from Europe. OneWorld Challenge, representing the Seattle Yacht Club, is flying seven national flags at its team base. Swiss Alinghi and Italian Prada include sailors from Australasia and all over Europe. "The challenge within the challenge," says Prada's general manager, Giacomo Ovidi, "is that people of different nationalities can work as a team and achieve great results." If Alinghi wins the Cup, it could stage the next...
...Francisco Giants outfielder, by far the best hitter in the game, is a kind of black hole, a gravitational force that warps everything around him, and all the talk of the baseball world this week centered on whether the Angels would simply give Bonds a free pass to first base rather than risk that he'd do even greater damage with his bat. Commanding that kind of respect is rare indeed, and for his pivotal role in the California Fall Classic, Barry Bonds is our Person of the Week...
...What sets Bond apart from the rest is his mastery of the act of hitting a baseball. No player in any sport is so completely in control as Bonds is when he steps into the batter's box. He reaches base nearly six out of every ten times at the plate, astonishing for a sport where three out of ten makes you a star. That's what makes Bonds a compelling and newsworthy figure; a quality that speaks of clarity and of sureness in a time when both are in short demand...