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Following his triumph<\/a> over the Persians and their subjects at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, Alexander the Great advanced south into Lebanon. The Phoenician city-states knelt to him, with the exception of Tyre. Blessed with two harbors and the love of far-away Carthage, Tyre was a threat to Alexander\u2019s supply lines as he prepared to conquer the Persian Empire. From Tyre, the beleaguered Persians could land behind Alexander\u2019s forces and isolate them from Greece, or they could sail to Greece and sponsor an uprising against Alexander with the restless Athenians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTake Her Down\u201d: Inside<\/a> eBay\u2019s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook staffer secretly advised<\/a> Andrew Cuomo\u2019s team to \u2018victim shame\u2019 accuser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These emails<\/a>, just released last week<\/a>, add to the evidence that many leading biosafety experts considered it plausible from the very early days of the pandemic that the virus may have emerged from a Chinese laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inexorable rise of identity condiments<\/a> has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Sequencer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location<\/a> Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CIA Director William Burns said the agency has “a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency<\/a>” on the go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Want to See My Friend<\/a>, Jimmy Lai<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A climber found a trove of gems<\/a> in the Alps amid a 47-year-old Boeing 707 wreck. He gets to keep half.<\/p>\n\n\n