Gaza pullout begins as Israeli forces vacate settlements
Reuters reports Israel begins withdrawing from Gaza with the closure of the territory and troops securing the exit of settlers. Brig. Gen. Guy Tsur says the move marks a new phase, while Palestinian authorities fear clashes and prepare for security amid widespread turnout of police and militants.
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Gaza Strip
Guy Tsur
Israel
Ehud Olmert
Israel TV
Channel One
Yasser Arafat
Islamic Jihad
Gaza City
Hamas
Ziyad Satari
Khan Younis
Morag Settlement
Palestinian Authority
Mahmoud Abbas
Channel 10
Dan Halutz
Halutz
Ariel Sharon
West Bank
Palestine
Sharon
East Jerusalem
Benson exhibit links author’s Bond obsession to a wild novel
Benson discusses a forthcoming book about a Japanese nationalist aiding the Yakuza to unleash West Nile–enhanced mosquitoes on a G-8 summit. The museum shows photos from his Kagawa trip and the 1967 You Only Live Twice set in Japan, tracing his Bond fascination from Odessa in the 1960s and Sean Connery's Bond era.
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Benson
Japan
James Bond
Kagawa Prefecture
007
Odessa
Goldfinger
Sean Connery
Bond
James Bond writer Benson recalls Fleming era split
The biography notes that Benson designed Mindscape text adventures including A View to a Kill and Goldfinger, created games for Origin, MicroProse, Cyberdreams, and Viacom, and pursued Bond novels and playboy short stories before parting with the Fleming family in 2003. He plans a Japan trip for a museum opening.
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Mindscape Inc
Benson
Origin Systems Inc
MicroProse Software Inc
Cyberdreams Inc
Viacom New Media
Ian Fleming
Playboy
James Bond
Japan
Buffalo Grove
Fleming
Flooding and heavy rains hit Texas towns amid front approaching
A front and Pacific Gulf moisture brought heavy rainfall and floods across Colorado City, Deep Creek at Dunn, Midland and Snyder. Colorado City and Deep Creek warned flood levels near 21.9 and 24 feet respectively as radar showed 6 to 8 inches overnight with isolated 8 to 10 inches north of Snyder. Bridges under water, roads passable, two Fisher County homes evacuated as 8 inches fell in 24 hours.
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Pacific
Gulf
Dunn
Gould
Midland
Todd Lindley
National Weather Service
Snyder
Lindley
Sterling County
Fisher County
Sheriff's Department
High altitude crash kills 11S passengers and crew
A transport official said the 11S passengers and six-member crew may have been dead when the plane went down after a decompression and oxygen failure. Eyewitnesses report fighter jets flying low and a loud explosion as pieces of the airliner scattered. Relatives gathered at Athens and Larnaca airports amid grief and anger while authorities traced the flight after contact was lost over the Aegean Sea.
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Spyros Papachristou
Grammatiko
Athens
Larnaca
Greece
Alpha Television
Sotiris Voutas
Cyprus
Aegean
Boeing 737 Crash In Cyprus Mountainside Believed Dead
The Boeing 737 crashed into a mountainside in Cyprus, with Haris Thrasou and Akrivos Tsolakis commenting on a likely complete loss of life. Black boxes recovered. authorities note previous decompression risks and oxygen loss. 48 children aboard. Helios flight had no recent service problems. Firefighters battled a brush fire at the scene as debris lay in multiple pieces.
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Cyprus
Haris Thrasou
Akrivos Tsolakis
Tsolakis
Swift
David Kaminski Morrow
Air Transport Intelligence
Europe
Greece
Helios
Giorgos Dimitriou
Athens
Dimitriou
Liz Verdier
Boeing
South Dakota
Payne Stewart
WestJet
Study seeks 50 testers for new hearing aid device
Five leading manufacturers invite 50 participants to join a product study testing a digital audio tube and micro processor aims to improve sound realism and comfort. Qualified testers will be paid for their participation.
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Gregg Lindly
Livingston Hearing Centers
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