Israel's worst-kept military secret has shown up for all to see on the country's armed forces Web site.
Surfers can now see what most Israelis, and countries with access to spy satellite photographs, have known for years: the locations of all 12 military airfields in the Jewish state.
Military censorship compels news organizations referring to the air bases in any news items to use the dateline "Somewhere in Israel."
But the airfields, complete with names and locations, now appear, in Hebrew, on a map of Israel at the site.
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Road bytes: Iowa plays host to a traveling political Web site on Wednesday that will allow residents to send free email to any of 140,000 local, state, and federal officials in over 7,000 towns and cities across the country.
The site is part of the Grassroots Express -- a bus masquerading as a giant mailbox from the outside while being a fully equipped electronic town hall inside -- currently wending its way across the United States.
The aim of the electronic road show is to promote the Net as a political tool and bring more people online to chat with their elected officials. The initiative's brainchild is Alex Sheshunoff, a 24-year-old Yale graduate and founding member of E-The People, a nonpartisan service dedicated to creating a democratic process on the Web. In the next three weeks, the bus will head east to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, and New York. Sheshunoff plans to reach his final destination, Washington DC, on 8 October.
