The clashes left 22 Lebanese soldiers and 17 militants dead in one of the most significant challenges to the army since the end of Lebanon?s bloody civil war.
Evidence so far in the case against Anthony Pellicano, ?Detective to the Stars,? provides a vicarious tour through the dysfunctional heart of Hollywood.
When novelist Barbara Kingsolver, 52, moved from Tucson, Ariz., to southwest Virginia with her husband, Steven, and two daughters, they decided that they would spend a year trying to eat local: only food they either raised themselves or bought from nearby growers. They raised turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs, bought milk from a regional dairy, and froze corn and peas for the winter. The results of that experiment are the subject of her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
Andrew Stout's farm in Carnation, Wash., is one of the most successful small organic farms in the country. Each week, Full Circle Farm delivers fresh lettuce, green peas, spring garlic, and spinach to 17 farmers' markets in the Seattle area, as well as to dozens of restaurants and retailers, including Whole Foods Market. Some 2,400 boxes of produce a week go out to families who have bought a share in the farm's riches. His customers are counting on getting freshness and taste-and also on Stout's care when it comes to hygiene. "Bacteria exists everywhere," he says. So he keeps the manure pile away from the packing shed, tests the water used to irrigate and wash vegetables, and keeps an eye on his workers to be sure they wash their hands. "I'm a food provider," he says. "You want to do the absolute best that you can."
AP - Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday, and the country's Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued U.S. support for the government.
AP - Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp Monday where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was holed up, pounding the camp with artillery a day after the worst eruption of violence since the end of the country's civil war.
AP - Staples Inc. is expanding its electronics waste recycling program by accepting used computers and monitors that can now be dropped off for a $10 fee at any of the office products chain's 1,400 U.S. locations during store hours.
U.S. forces, in a raid in Baghdad's Sadr City area, killed a man identified as the ringleader of a January 20 attack on U.S. troops in Karbala that left five Americans dead, the military says. The Karbala attack was an elaborate ruse in which insurgents disguised themselves as U.S. soldiers. They killed one GI at the scene and four others later.
Smoke billowed Monday from a Palestinian refugee camp as Lebanon forces battled Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda for a second day near the northern city of Tripoli.
Hours after Israel's prime minister vowed to respond to ongoing rocket attacks with an increased military response, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 10 Palestinians, including a child, Palestinian security sources said Sunday. Israeli military officials on Sunday said that, during the prior 24 hours, militants had launched 21 rockets into Israel, brining the total number of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel over the past five days to about 130.
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