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...other rockets at Israeli towns across the border, and in the past six weeks the number of attacks has increased dramatically. After the attack, Israeli officials said the number of Palestinian rocket attacks could now spike to 200 a day. Hamas announced that it had sent a rocket toward Askelon; one man in the Israeli town of Netivot, east of the Gaza Strip, was killed. Israel also expects Hamas to launch suicide attacks against Israel; a Hamas leader promised as much on Saturday...
...funding not to invest, but to hoard cash for worse times ahead. It wouldn't be hard to imagine regular people doing the same thing with home equity lines of credit. When it came to lending between banks and the commercial paper market, the economists pointed to a shift toward shorter-term lending. Even if overall volumes were holding steady, a reliance on overnight loans would nonetheless indicate that lending wasn't working as usual, they argued...
...mere appointment of renowned scientists to advisory posts early in the transition process signals a change in the executive branch’s attitude toward science from the previous administration, she said. To a large extent, their presence is meant to reassure the country that policymakers at the highest level will value scientific expertise when deciding how to address climate change and genetic research...
...trees to create gas that powers the farm's milk and cheese operations. The bark of other trees is also made into pellets for heating stoves used throughout the community. A local winery, for instance, has two such stoves, and Kuzumaki pays residents up to 50,000 yen ($490) toward the cost of installing one. All told, clean energy generated 161% of Kuzumaki's electricity last year...
...moved to Tokyo as a young man he didn't bother telling people where he was from because no one knew of Kuzumaki. It's different now, he says; the town is familiar to Japanese throughout the country. Whether it is ultimately recognized as a beacon pointing the way toward an oil-free energy future, or as a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided experiment, only time - and perhaps oil prices - can determine...