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...Green Mountain State's legislators passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into "civil unions." Everyone involved knew there was a fire storm of protest coming; even some supporters of the bill took pains to insist that the state had not become the first in the land to license gay marriage. But it sure looked that way as civil-union partners were guaranteed a laundry list of rights--in areas of child custody, family leave, inheritance, insurance--traditionally reserved for the traditionally wed. "This is really very emotional," said gay-rights advocate Paula Ettelbrick after the Vermont House...
...Pope's spring visit to the Holy Land seemed like ancient history, as did the unsuccessful mid-summer Camp David summit, when fighting erupted between Arabs and Israelis in the autumn. The spark: on Sept. 28 right-wing Israeli politician and former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, and Palestinians took great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled...
From Mozambique to Miami, people faced flooding of biblical depths. In Africa in February, two weeks of heavy rain were followed by the fury of Cyclone Eline. With it, land near the Limposo River was swamped; by early March at least 200 Mozambicans had died, a million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October...
...grant the Palestinians sovereignty over Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif (called the Temple Mount by Jews) while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall (the only remaining piece of the Second Temple). The proposal also calls for the resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Palestinian-controlled land rather than in Israel. And so Barak went back to Jerusalem to huddle with his cabinet and security chiefs, and Arafat went off to Cairo by himself...
...Chance that a coin flipped 5,825,043 times (the number of people who voted for Bush or Gore in Florida) would land on one side at least 537 times more than the other...