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  WORLD AFFAIRS
Extreme Victory
Hamas emerges victorious in a Palestinian election that stuns the world. But what did the militants win? A mess—and they can't fix it alone.

  WORLD BUSINESS
Technology: Internet Phones Make Talk Cheap
The era of the free Internet phone is advancing fast, led by new entrants like Tesco, precipitating a sharp drop in the stocks of big telecoms.

  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Energy: The New Nuclear Power Boom
Nuclear power died in the last century, but things have changed since then. World leaders are now taking a second look at the atom

  SOCIETY AND THE ARTS
Can Rocca Rev up Torino?
The 2006 Winter Olympics are right around the corner but so far, the only passion for the Games is coming from protesters. Even Italy's new hometown hero can't spark excitement the way La Bomba did.

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World View: Why U.S. Didn’t See Hamas Coming
Arafat created one of the most ill-disciplined, corrupt and ineffective organizations ever to be taken seriously on the world stage.

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DVD Cold War
The battle to control the future of high-definition DVD is raging hot, but the outcome is not as critical as many claim.

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Music: Revisiting the Magic of Mozart
On the 250th anniversary of his birth, a more realistic picture of the composer's musical genius is emerging.

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Red Sea Tragedy

Feb. 3, 2006: Relatives wait for news of survivors after a passenger ferry carrying close to 1,500 people sank early Friday in the Red Sea near Egypt. The Egyptian passenger ferry, which sank outside the port of Safaga, was carrying mostly Egyptian workers returning home from Saudi Arabia. At least 263 passengers were said to have escaped on life boats.

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"We must forgive. We’re talking about a foreign newspaper in Denmark, far away from the Muslim world. Maybe they didn’t know they were doing something wrong ... I’m not empathizing with them ... but we can’t just go that far with our punishment. I feel we, the Muslims, are overreacting."
—Jordanian editor Jihad Momani, who was fired from his job, and later arrested, for republishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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