If I double-click in the space between two words in Firefox, X highlights both words. In an xterm and in Vim, it just highlights the space. In a properties dialog within Rythymbox, and in the Openoffice spreadsheet, whichever word is nearer the cursor gets highlighted.
Update: I've come to use this whenever I want two words in Firefox, which is pretty often. So now it's a feature.
Aviation Week and Space Technology says
The radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the Israeli force to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved. Subsequently all of Syria's air-defense radar system went off the air for a period of time that encompassed the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told Aviation Week.
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The analysts don't believe that any part of Syria's electrical grid was shut down. They do contend that network penetration involved both remote air-to-ground electronic attack and penetration through computer-to-computer links.
"There also were some higher-level, non-tactical penetrations, either direct or as diversions and spoofs of the Syrian command and control capability, done through network attack," one U.S. intelligence specialist says.
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