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Tony Blair and Kofi Annan called for an international force to quell the fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militia, which continued for a sixth day.
Jerusalem—When Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed seven others in a July 12 cross-border raid, sparking an aggressive Israeli military reaction on Lebanon, a Jordanian friend of mine changed his MSN messenger user name to "F*** Hezbollah."
The dollar continued gaining on the euro and traded higher against the yen today, as further fighting in the Middle East spurred a "flight to quality." Assets denominated in U.S. currency are typically perceived as a safer investment in times of uncertainty.
Eleanor Miller has diabetes. The 81-year-old from Olympia, Wash., doesn't take insulin, and she largely controls her disease with diet and exercise. Her husband, oddly enough, is the one who has taken insulin. Yet Clarence Miller, 82, is not diabetic. He has Alzheimer's disease. "When I heard about this, I thought, 'Insulin? That's just crazy," Eleanor says. Yet as part of an experiment at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, Clarence inhaled an insulin mist, and "there was a bit of a difference to him. It was subtle," says Eleanor, "but he would remember things overnight that he otherwise would have forgotten."
AP - Westerners fled by land, sea and air Monday as Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon briefly and Hezbollah rockets knocked down a three-story house in northern Israel. However, there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front to end the worst fighting in 24 years.
AP - A tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages on Java island Monday, killing at least 226 people and leaving scores missing after bulletins failed to reach the region because no warning system was in place.
AP - Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday dramatically raised the number of potential trouble spots identified by engineers and investigators in a Big Dig connector tunnel where the ceiling collapsed.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the Middle East crisis are unlikely to prove successful until Israel feels it has crippled Hezbollah or President George W. Bush pressures Israel to halt the offensive, Arab diplomats said Monday.
A U.S. military helicopter was scheduled to remove another few dozen U.S. citizens from Beirut on Monday as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants continues.