Israel speeds up West Bank barrier work after injunction

Planned route for the West Bank separation fence surrounds village of Walajeh on three sides, separating it from large tracts of its land.

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Israel speeds up work on apartheid wall

Israel speeds up the building of its West Bank separation barrier despite Palestinian protests against the project that devours hectares of their farmland.

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False Cape State Park

Despite being located entirely within the city limits of Virginia Beach, False Cape State Park is an oasis of undisturbed coastal land, on a barrier spit separating the Atlantic Ocean from Back Bay.

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College Presidents Taste Life Outside Their Offices

Many of the barriers separating a college's top-paid leaders from its tuition-paying students have disappeared in the past decade. E-mail, text messaging and social media give students unprecedented access to a chief executive, who can no longer hide behind a secretary and an office door.

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Poker Psychology: Don't Tap The Glass

If you’ve ever owned fish, you know that they will often swim right over to the outside of their aquarium tanks, staying there for long stretches of time with their mouths pressed right up against the barrier that separates them from the rest of the world.

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Otaku Tengoku: Nintendo 3DS

A fine grating in front of the screen, known as a parallax barrier does the job that the polarising glasses do in the movie theatre. The parallax layer sends separate images in narrow strips to each eye. Because the light is directed slightly differently to the left and right sides a sweet spot is created a few inches in front of the screen.

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Fun Stuff for Kids: What is a Coastal Lagoon? | kids can tra

Coastal lagoons are shallow bodies of brackish water separated from the ocean by natural barriers such as banks of sand. They are located parallel to the shoreline. Coastal lagoons are connected to th ...

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