Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began talking quietly with Arafat. Then he put his arm around Arafat and drew him away from the others into a corner where they could speak privately. American negotiator Dennis Ross had proposed earlier that the talks on Hebron begin at Erez, a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. But when he and Arafat rejoined the group, Netanyahu said they had agreed the negotiations should start Sunday, after the Muslim and Jewish sabbaths on Friday and Saturday. In spite of the willingness to go ahead, no one is suggesting the talks will be quick or easy...
...hard to understand his frustration. Paleoanthropologists have only a general idea of how humans first came to the Americas. It happened, most believe, around 12,000 years ago, when Asians began crossing a strip of land that connected present-day Siberia and Alaska, across what is now the Bering Strait. Modern Asians and Native Americans have enough genetic and physical similarities to make a convincing case for the link. But the details of the migration, including how many waves there were, when they happened and the routes by which wanderers subsequently moved east and south over the millennia, are still...
Certain key shortcomings doomed the PDAs to failure. The handwriting recognition on these early models was atrocious, with Gary Trudeau lampooning in his "Doonesbury" strip the Newton's inability to recognize text. Secondly, devices like the Newton were too big and bulky to be of any use. Early PDAs were as big as a paperback novel and almost as heavy. They could be transported, but weren't truly portable in any sense of the word. They also required expensive add-ons to connect to desktop computers. At up to $1,000 a pop, these devices were no small investment...
...officers on both sides had been one of the glowing achievements of the peace process. Now that was all in peril. "They were shooting at us like we never made peace, like they never sat with us, like we never laughed together," lamented a young officer in the Gaza Strip. One of the wounded soldiers Netanyahu visited in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital told the Prime Minister he recognized the man who shot him from a joint patrol they had conducted in the past. Said an Israeli commander serving in the West Bank: "What we built together is collapsing...
...could be. He certainly has a constitutionally protected right to act on that impression, even though the aroma strip on his Vanity Fair ad revived old thoughts about whether the Drafters could have envisioned the possibility that the freedom of expression guaranteed in the First Amendment would someday extend to smelling up the place...