Under the terms of this treaty, in accordance with which Egypt regained sovereignty over Sinai, Egypt is not allowed to post more than 750 soldiers along its border with Palestine and Israel. As Mohamed Hassanein Heikal pointed out in a recent interview on Al-Jazeera, Egypt's sovereignty over the peninsula is incomplete. But more practically, as Haaretz of 25 January observed, "a few hundred Egyptian policemen had little chance of preventing thousands from crossing over, even by using force as they tried to do." It is curiously ironic that Tel Aviv insists that Egypt control its border with Gaza yet continues to reject Egyptian demands to amend the treaty to permit for a larger security force along the border. Western military experts have estimated that Egypt would need to station at least 3,000 troops in Arish and Rafah, along with appropriate air, naval and artillery support, in order to adequately protect the border.

28 Things Didn't Happen In 2007

Companies began experimenting with building their own SecondLife areas, and thieves and vandals ran amok, too. At the end of 2007, who's still talking about it? Hardly anybody, and the virtual tumbleweeds seem to be increasing as members seem to spending less and less time there -- their initial infatuation wearing thin. Jury's still out though. The site has seen some positive growth, just the not the explosive growth everyone was counting on.

Widgets certainly did explode onto the scene in 2007. After Facebook opened up its platform to developers, the applications began pouring in. And then Facebook users started virtual food fights. Sophisticated usage or not, you have to chalk one up for the success of widgets in social networking.

Sheriff: Man killed motorcyclist who followed daughters

Bogart — A man is facing a murder charge after authorities say he shot and killed a motorcyclist who followed his daughters home from a department store.

Marc Andreessen's newspaper deathwatch

When you have an obsolete, inconvenient physical product that nobody wants in an era of universal online access, the appropriate strategy is clearly to raise the price," he snarked. (He's not the only one gunning for the Times. A coalition of hedge funds just bought up 10% of the company and wants to install four of its own candidates on the board.)

He's a legend in Silicon Valley for having founded and sold, by age 36, two billion-dollar companies: Netscape Communications (unloaded on AOL (TWX, Fortune 500) in 1998 for $4.2 billion) and Opsware (a server-management company that HP (HPQ, Fortune 500) bought last year for $1.6 billion).

Math-challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio can’t account for the $41 million ...

It seems odd to me that Oliver is posting both here and in Scam.com where it became very clear he is Edward Magedson. I guess Oliver is the sum total of the Friends of Ed Magedson. Couldnt he actually find someone that doesnt find what he does repugnant?

I am appalled at a group claiming to be a consumer advocacy group, allowing real victims to be re-victimized on a site with lies and posts other false information. Ripoffreport.com was a good site when it allowed consumers to post REAL concerns about a product or service you purchased.

Timber Industry 1991-2000

Its annual sales volumes exceed $4.5 billion, which is 2.9% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Russian Federation. Up to 85% of production is geared to export: round timber accounts for 33% of exports; lumber, for 19%; and the remainder is comprised of cardboard, pulp, and paper. The industry's foreign deliveries of more than $3.5 billion per year hold fifth place as a source of income after gas, oil, and ferrous and nonferrous metals. The industry accounts for about 5% of Russia' exports.

Timber industry production has decreased 54% compared to 1988, the peak year for the economy of the USSR. The average age of equipment in the industry is 25 years. No more than 10% of the capacity of pulp and paper mills in Russia conforms to world standards, and up to 40% of it needs to be replaced immediately.

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