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ATARA, West Bank – It is billed as a symbol of the future Palestine: a modern, middle-class city of orderly streets, parks and shopping plazas rising in the hills of the West Bank, ready for independence, affluence and peace.But the $800-milli

PHILIPSBURG, St.Maarten – Several thousand revelers gathered in the capitals of tiny St.Maarten and Curacao on Sunday to celebrate greater autonomy within the Dutch kingdom as a result of the breakup of the Netherlands Antilles.At the stroke o