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Most students of Bible history believe that the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, was an uninhabited wilderness when Abraham (a middle Bronze Age man) came to Beersheeba about 1500 B.C. One short reference puzzled them. The book of Genesis (14:6) refers to Horites (cave dwellers) who lived "by the wilderness" and were smitten by Chedorlaomer, King of Elam. But until the fall of Perrot's man, no trace of the Horites had been found...
...After a study of 789 epileptic and non-epileptic children, two Baltimore neurologists, Abraham Lilienfeld and Benjamin Pasamanick, found that most cases of epilepsy appear to stem primarily from brain damage incurred before, during or just after birth. The doctors' conclusion: rather than being victims of inherited disease, epileptics may be "reproductive casualties" (like stillborn infants and cerebral palsy victims) whose ailments could be forestalled partly through better care before and during birth. ¶ Dr. Milford Thewlis of the American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous...
Germany's alarmed pigeon fanciers have now engaged Professor Abraham Esau, radar specialist in Aachen's Technical School, to look into the situation. Dr. Esau is sure that birds are guided by some type of electromagnetic waves. If scientists can find out what waves confuse a bird's "instruments," they may learn how the mysterious sense works...
...neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological method practiced by Chicago's Dr. Abraham Low. Vienna-born Dr. Low, 63, who is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, heads a growing movement (2,000 members) called Recovery, Inc., and dedicated to a kind of correspondence-school psychotherapy...
This was an informal session. At another, on June 22, Rutman said he knew no Jefferson teachers to be present Communists. Then, on August 5, he came before a newly-formed College Loyalty Committee whose membership included Sollis-Cohen, two other trustees, Dean Bennett, and Dr. Abraham Camtarow, chairman of biochemistry...